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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Education	Mary Augusta Ward	On her arrival in Oxford, her father became to some extent interested in her education, enrolling her for music lessons with the organist James Taylor , and having her copy work for him. He provided...
Education	Beatrix Potter	Beatrix, educated at home and six years older than her brother, was a solitary child. She had few toys; but she became deeply interested in science, and was also, from an early age, devoted to...
Education	Celia Moss	Little is known of CM 's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky (who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father...
Education	Marjorie Bowen	To educate herself further, she read widely, setting herself literary exercises, writing verse imitating or dramatising Chaucer , Spenser , and Browning . However, she writes that at that time, I had read no really...
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	One of the poems MG had to learn for recitation was Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor (later Gilbert) . Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962. 47 (MG thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...
Education	Emma Marshall	At a very early age Emma Martin could recite See'st thou my home is where yon woods are waving by Felicia Hemans . qtd. in Marshall, Beatrice. Emma Marshall. Seeley, 1900. 8 After leaving school she continued to study music with Dr Zacariah or Zechariah Buck
Education	Toru Dutt	TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick
Education	Harriet Beecher Stowe	HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994. 12-13 Her father did not allow novels in...
Education	Elinor Glyn	Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys 's diary, Cervantes ' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott , Agnes
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Education	Queen Victoria	Princess Alexandrina Victoria had begun reading her first novel, Sir Walter Scott 's Bride of Lammermoor; she remained an avid reader of novels throughout her life. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 43
Family and Intimate relationships	Charlotte Stopes	Her other grandfather, William Carmichael , was a solicitor, or Writer to the Signet. In this capacity he assisted and then succeeded Sir Walter Scott . Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924. 12
Family and Intimate relationships	Ellen Wood	EW 's father, Thomas Price , was a glove manufacturer. His grandson describes him as an unambitious and literary man, more fitted for a cathedral stall than the calling he had adopted, Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895. 3 and as...
Family and Intimate relationships	Mary Howitt	In Leicester she met William Howitt ; she later visited his family at Heanor in Derbyshire. His mother was a compounder of herbal medicines. William loved Walter Scott , the Romantic poets, and the...
Family and Intimate relationships	Violet Hunt	VH 's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt , born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy and William Wordsworth , John Ruskin ...

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