Sir Walter Scott

15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832

Standard Name: Scott, Sir Walter

Birth Name: Walter Scott

Titled: Sir Walter Scott

Nickname: The Great Unknown

Used Form: author of Kenilworth

The remarkable career of Walter Scott began with a period as a Romantic poet (the leading Romantic poet in terms of popularity) before he went on to achieve even greater popularity as a novelist, particularly for his historical fiction and Scottish national tales. His well-earned fame in both these genres of fiction has tended to create the impression that he originated them, whereas in fact women novelists had preceded him in each.

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Textual Features	Elizabeth Fenton	Fenton sets out to paint a a familiar picture of the everyday occurrences, manners, and habits of life of persons undistinguished either by wealth or fame Fenton, Elizabeth. The Journal of Mrs. Fenton. Editor Lawrence, Sir Henry, Edward Arnold, 1901. 1-2 in British India. But this is largely unfulfilled...
Textual Features	Amy Levy	She continued: The Jew, as we know him to-day, with his curious mingling of diametrically opposed qualities; his surprising virtues and no less surprising vices; leading his eager, intricate life; living, moving, and having his...
Textual Features	Mary Bryan	MB 's preface repeats an opinion she had already voiced in letters to Scott : that the dominance of his novels had narrowed the opportunities for others. Its village setting, in and around Sidmouth on...
Textual Features	J. S. Anna Liddiard	An advertisement apologises for William's temerity in handling a topic (the battle of Waterloo) already touched by a Master's hand (that of Walter Scott ). The table of contents names JSAL 's poem as...
Textual Features	Elizabeth Thomas	Though her fascinating, good-hearted, but free-thinking, twenty-year-old, student Baron goes in for solitary rambles like his original (Childe Harold), this habit is less emphasised than his poetry. His verses are not wistful or Romantic but...
Textual Production	Mary Brunton	She had nearly finished that part of the novel set in Scotland when in July that year Walter Scott published Waverley. At first she thought she had better cancel her own Scottish scenes, but...
Textual Production	Mary Fortune	Although stories in Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer and Adventures of an Australian Mounted Trooper first appeared without attribution, a number of them were soon re-issued under his own name by James Skipp Borlase
Textual Production	Joanna Baillie	She agreed to do this without payment, though Thomson gave her an Indian shawl when adding to his first request six years later. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25. 9, 11 Baillie at first demurred, claiming that her talents did not...
Textual Production	Catherine Hutton	CH anonymously supplied materials for the memoir of Robert Bage that appeared in volume 9 of Scott 's Ballantyne's Novelists' Library; catalogues list the prefatory notices as by Scott. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 1 (1846): 436 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Textual Production	Lady Louisa Stuart	LLS expressed decorous dismay when her friend Sir Walter Scott made public her authorship of the comic and outspoken ballad Ugly Meg.
Textual Production	Emily Gerard	At eleven or twelve EG began to scribble in secret—poetry of course; for what youthful writer at that stage of his or her existence would stoop to prose! Most of her poems were elegies on...
Textual Production	Sarah Stickney Ellis	In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...
Textual Production	Grace Aguilar	GA 's early historical romance in the style of Scott , The Days of Bruce, was published posthumously by her mother . Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996. 139 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Textual Production	Mary Bryan	Letters exchanged between MB and Sir Walter Scott survive for these years; the correspondence, however, may not have ended in 1827. Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
Textual Production	Mary Bryan	MB sent Scott , in a letter, a poem entitled The Village Maid. Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.

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