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Sir Walter Scott
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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Trefusis | Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees. Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo. 72-3 Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton. 27 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Tytler | She and her Breton maid Marie were the only European women present during the siege of Delhi. When the time had come for women and children to leave, HT
was too advanced in her pregnancy... |
| 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. R. Bentley and Son. 3 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Calderwood | MC
's mother, born Anne Dalrymple
and by marriage Lady Steuart, was one of the youngest of a large family, and described as witty and beautiful. She was a niece of Janet Dalrymple
who was... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Plumptre | By contrast, the youngest sister, Jemima
(baptised at Cambridge on 29 December 1769), who also became a novelist, seems to have lost contact with most of her family; not one of them appears on her... |
| 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 | Susan Ferrier | The first important position of James Ferrier
, SF
's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll
... |
| 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. 12 |
| 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
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Grant | AG
's parents were married in 1753; they moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards. Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, p. ix - xxxvi. xiii |
| Family and Intimate relationships | George Eliot | One of her resources during his illness was reading to him from the works of Sir Walter Scott
. Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton. 312 |
| Friends, Associates | Joanna Baillie | JB
first met Walter Scott
(a very new literary celebrity); she really got to know him by March 1808, when she visited him at 39 Castle Street, Edinburgh. Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Archon Books. 21-2 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Anne Barnard | LAB
's later social life in London is mentioned in the diary of Frances Burney
. Graham, Henry Grey. Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century. Adam and Charles Black. 345 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Charlotte Bury | During her first marriage Lady Charlotte frequently entertained the literary celebrities of her day. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. |
| Friends, Associates | Amelia Opie | In 1813 she again met de Staël
(who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald
. Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan
, Byron
, and Sir Walter Scott |
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