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 Production	Christian Isobel Johnstone	CIJ published The Cook and Housewife's Manual under the pseudonym Margaret Dods, in honour of Walter Scott 's character from the Cleikum Inn in St. Ronan's Well. Meg Dods from St. Ronan's Well...
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	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	Anne Marsh	Her prefatory praise of Sir Walter Scott for having made the English understand Scotland, and of Charles Lever for only now beginning to make the English understand Ireland, has led careless readers to suppose that...
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	Christian Isobel Johnstone	She published this anonymously. Another edition of the same year has the Edinburgh imprint only. She claims that the first half of the work was set up in print before she had seen Scott 's...
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.
Textual Production	Catherine Fanshawe	According to Sir Walter Scott , CF and her sisters were responsible for the first publication, in 1829, of the memoirs of their seventeenth-century ancestor Ann Fanshawe . He described it as a new publishd...
Textual Production	Vita Sackville-West	By the following year she was writing: not only a diary, and soon an extensive correspondence, but also poetry (not about adolescent feelings but about places and historical characters); long, romantic, historical novels in the...
Textual Production	Mary Bryan	MB (now Bedingfield) accompanied her last surviving letter to Scott with a poem entitled Return my Muse, which laments her final decline into blindness. Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
Textual Production	Lady Eleanor Butler	Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby . Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages. vii They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell
Textual Production	Anna Gordon	Walter Scott invited Robert Jamieson for a visit during which they exchanged copies of ballads derived from two separate manuscripts of AG 's collection of ballads, bringing their joint stores to about fifty of her...
Textual Production	Anna Seward	AS , Poetical Works, was posthumously published, edited at her express desire by Walter Scott (at this date a famous poet but not yet a novelist). Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 3d ser. 20 (1810): 448
Textual Production	Augusta Ada Byron	As an adolescent Ada composed an essay on Sir Walter Scott 's Heart of Midlothian, and a handful of creative tales. Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 114 Later she composed an essay on the imagination. Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 217

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