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.
This is perhaps the most remarkable fictional treatment of the general period of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. EH
thus defends her once-controversial subject-matter, and her remarkable empathy with the rebels' position: the tale...
Textual Features
Grace Aguilar
GA
's representation of Jews and Jewish history was profoundly influenced by novelists, pre-eminently Walter Scott
, and by historians including Americans Washington Irving
and William H. Prescott
.
Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity. Duke University Press.
160
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...
Escreet, J. M. The Life of Edna Lyall. Longmans, Green and Co.
53
with her sister and her brother-in-law the Rev. Hampden Jameson
. Their house in College Road, Eastbourne, was a picturesque gabled, red-tiled house, covered with...
Residence
Alison Cockburn
As a widow living in EdinburghAC
was, according to Sarah Tytler
and Jean L. Watson
, a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay
and Burns
, and...
Reception
Mary Bryan
The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7.
there...
Reception
Margaret Holford
It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart
published...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
The Domestic Affections was not reviewed, but FH
was slowly gaining recognition. In 1815 Walter Scott
published in the Edinburgh Annual Register a poem by her inspired by his
novel Waverley.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
xxii, xxxv
Reception
Anna Eliza Bray
Later in life, she was sometimes referred to as the female Walter Scott.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland.
In his History of the English Novel, Ernest Baker
dubbed her a modest imitator of Scott.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research.
116: 50
Reception
Emma Robinson
Henry Fothergill Chorley
in his Athenæum review called the novel a tale of terror and adventure, just right for Christmas reading.
AG
's reputation was such (after the publication of the Memoirs of an American Lady) that she was one of those confidently stated to be the author of Scott
's Waverley when that novel...
Reception
Felicia Hemans
FH
's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge
and Wordsworth
, if not Scott
and Byron
. She proved, as...
Reception
Jane Porter
The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
He also nicknamed her Ida after Tennyson
's heroine in The Princess, and compared her pride to that of Scott
's Flora MacIvor.
Marsh, Jan. Elizabeth Siddal, 1829-1862: Pre-Raphaelite Artist. The Ruskin Gallery.
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Reception
Emily Frederick Clark
From EFC
's letters to the Royal Literary Fund
it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very...
