Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
The story of her researching this book at the Boston Athenæum
is not quite accurate, since few of her borrowings from that institution were on the topic of slavery.
Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press.
99
Her preface declares that a...
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Anna Seward
AS
wrote her first surviving letter to the young Walter Scott
, with a detailed critique of his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, of which he had sent her the first volume (not the...
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Elizabeth Isabella Spence
In an AdvertisementEIS
claimed that she wrote this book before the appearance (in 1826) of two other historical novels about the Civil War period, Brambletye House by Horace Smith
and Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott
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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...
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Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson
Some time after July 1814 SSW
published, bearing all three of her names, Waverley; or, The Castle of Mac Iver: A Highland Tale, of sixty years since. The title-page explained that this work was...
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Anna Seward
AS
's six-volume Letters . . . written between the years 1784 and 1807 were posthumously published: not edited by Scott
(as she had requested).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 23 (1811): 112
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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...
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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, pp. 1-25.
9, 11
Baillie at first demurred, claiming that her talents did not...
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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.
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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.
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Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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.
