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.
SF
only published under the condition that she remained anonymous, hiding her authorship for fear that she would be condemned as unladylike. If I was suspected of being accessory to such foul deeds my brothers...
Literary responses
Susan Ferrier
Clavering
urged SF
not to alter (presumably not to tone down) her Lady McLaughlan portrait. The novel's immediate success was crucially boosted by the praise of Sir Walter Scott
. SF
read it aloud to...
Literary responses
Susan Ferrier
Again SF
met with success on balance. The Athenæum, however, naming Miss Ferriar as author, stated that the success of Marriage, backed by the good-natured commendation of Sir Walter Scott
, induced the...
Textual Production
Margaret Forster
MF
published The Bride of Lowther Fell, A Romance: the word romance, echoing Sir Walter Scott
's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), suggests the gothic, or rather the mock-gothic.
“The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive.
(23 October 1980): 15
Textual Production
Mary Fortune
Although stories in Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer and Adventures of an Australian Mounted Trooper first appeared without attribution, a number of them were soon re-issued under his own name by James Skipp Borlase
Education
Georgiana Fullerton
She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld
and Maria Edgeworth
. Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean
play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later...
Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press.
47
(MG
thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...
Education
Mary Gawthorpe
Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre
in the LeedsSchool Board
offices. There MG
continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Textual Production
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...
Literary responses
Ann Taylor Gilbert
T he Critical, warming to the Taylors' work, said the authors of this little book had a better claim to the name of poet than many of higher pretensions.
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall.
3d ser. 8 (1806) : 440
Dedications
Ann Taylor Gilbert
Young Josiah had the idea for this volume when he had been staying with the Taylors, and his father, Thomas Conder
, was the book's publisher.
Armitage, Doris Mary. The Taylors of Ongar. W. Heffer and Sons.
Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys
's diary, Cervantes
' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott
, Agnes
Textual Production
Anna Gordon
Walter Scott
invited Robert Jamieson
for a visit during which they exchanged copies of ballads derived from two separate manuscripts of AG
's collection of ballads, bringing their joint stores to about fifty of her...
Anthologization
Anna Gordon
Walter Scott
included a selection of AG
's songs in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (of which the first two volumes appeared on this day).
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
