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.

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Education Rebecca Harding Davis
Influenced by her mother's linguistic virtuosity and her father's storytelling and love of classic literature, Rebecca grew up well acquainted with early American history (whose evidence lay close at hand) and with the stories...
Education Charlotte Dempster
In early adulthood CD continued to study on her own: she read the poetry of Sir Walter Scott and often spent her mornings reading history, writing, or drawing.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards.
40, 42
She was also fluent in French.
Education Florence Dixie
Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...
Intertextuality and Influence Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville
Education Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle, later SACD , attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College , a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic public school in England. He acquired a passion...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothea Du Bois
This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
The year following her Selected Poems, CAD won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...
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.
After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick
Travel Maria Edgeworth
ME spent two weeks at Abbotsford in Melrose with Sir Walter Scott and his family.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
418
Travel Maria Edgeworth
ME (with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott and J. G. Lockhart .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
215, 420
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME published three volumes of Tales of Fashionable Life, which Walter Scott called a series of moral fictions.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi
Friends, Associates Maria Edgeworth
ME formed warm friendships with Scott and his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon.
418-20
Literary responses Maria Edgeworth
Walter Scott 's praise of ME 's admirable Irish portraits
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press.
341
in Waverley (July 1814) must have been useful publicity. Scott expanded his praise in his edition of 1829
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press.
352-3
Intertextuality and Influence Maria Edgeworth
ME 's father, who admired her, wished to wring recognition for her from others. His efforts may well have been counter-productive. One result, even during her lifetime, was suspicion that he had written some parts...
Cultural formation George Eliot
She was acquainted with a multiplicity of sects, since many flourished in Warwickshire. From this time she deliberately dressed unfashionably, became censorious of the behaviour of others, and began reading more deeply in religion. Fear...

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