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
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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | The play's debut was disappointing. It closed after a single night, though it was remounted with greater success in Edinburgh the following April with Harriet Siddons
in a major role (having been recruited at Joanna Baillie |
| Publishing | Felicia Hemans | FH
's poems regularly appeared in periodicals, including The New Monthly Magazine from 1823. Publishing with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1827, she asked William Blackwood
to match her rate of more than a pound per... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin. 737 |
| Travel | Felicia Hemans | FH
took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 180 |
| Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | While in Scotland she met not only Scott
and Jeffrey
, she met in person her publisher William Blackwood
, writer Anne Grant
, critic John Wilson
, and sculptor Angus Fletcher
. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray. 347 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 201 |
| Education | Emily Hickey | She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott
, Tennyson
, and Barrett Browning
numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare
, as he was repelled by... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Margaret Holford | Margaret Holford the younger
scored her greatest success with her anonymous: Wallace
, or, The Fight of Falkirk, a historical verse romance inspired by Walter Scott
's Marmion, 1808. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
| Friends, Associates | Margaret Holford | Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott
, and although their relationship got off... |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | Margaret Holford the younger
sent some Lines Occasioned by Reading the Poetical Works of Walter Scott to this admired figure some years before the appearance of her own Scott-influenced poem, Wallace. Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol. 6 vols. , A. Constable. 1: 252-3 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | She was very disappointed when Scott never acknowledged this tribute. After Wallace appeared, Joanna Baillie
wrote to him reminding him of this lapse in manners and implicitly that it was his own fault that Wallace... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Walter Scott
never answered when Holford sent him a copy of Wallace for comment, and was apparently scathing about the poem in remarks made privately to Joanna Baillie. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1: 328 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Elizabeth Isabella Spence
praised this poem in print not long after its appearance (though she conceded that its view of Wallace was not so accurate as that of Jane Porter
's almost contemporaneous rendering in... |
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