Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards.
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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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| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Cuthbertson | Walter Scott
was hunting for a copy of this book in about 1813, calling it a now-forgotten novel; Garside, Peter. “Walter Scott and the ’Common’ Novel, 1808-1819”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol. 3 . |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Louisa Stuart Costello | Through her work on early French poetry LSC
became a friend of Sir Walter Scott
, who caused her to devote herself entirely to literature. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Both the original Dictionary of National Biography and its successor... |
| Education | Marie Corelli | Looking back on her early education, MC
wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively... |
| Education | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | MEC
was educated at home. She read widely during her childhood, including works by Shakespeare
and Malory
. She studied poetry, history and drawing. Saturday afternoons were spent with friends, acting scenes from Scott
's... |
| Travel | Sara Coleridge | In her years growing up, SC
frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth
family at Rydal Mount. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press. 24 |
| Education | Clara Codd | CC
never went to school; instead, she and her sisters were taught by a series of governesses who she never loved. Codd, Clara. So Rich a Life. Caxton Limited. 6 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Alison Cockburn | AC
was both a cousin, through her mother, and a great-aunt, through one of her sisters, of Walter Scott
. First meeting him when she was in her sixties and he was not yet six... |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Alison Cockburn | She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with. Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas. 2 |
| Literary responses | Alison Cockburn | Burns
reflected the influence of Cockburn's I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling in one of his earliest compositions, I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing (first published in 1788). Fordonski, Krzysztof. “Robert Burns and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: A Translatological Investigation into the Mystery of ’I dream’d I lay’”. Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 5 , No. 1, pp. 13-29. 16, 26 |
| 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... |
| Education | Kate Chopin | Following her father's death, her education was supplemented by her maternal great-grandmother Victoire Verdon Charleville
, who placed a particular emphasis on French and music.The young Kate O'Flaherty was also a voracious reader, and enjoyed... |
| Education | Lydia Maria Child | At fifteen she read Paradise Lost (with her brother's encouragement) and was delighted with its grandeur and sublimity, but was bold enough to criticise Milton
for assert[ing] the superiority of his own sex in rather... |
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