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.
On her arrival in Oxford, her father
became to some extent interested in her education, enrolling her for music lessons with the organist James Taylor
, and having her copy work for him. He provided...
Literary responses
Mary Augusta Ward
Beatrice Webb
called this novel the most useful bit of work that has been done for many a long day. You have managed to give the arguments for and against factory legislation and a fixed...
Education
Queen Victoria
Princess Alexandrina Victoria
had begun reading her first novel, Sir Walter Scott
's Bride of Lammermoor; she remained an avid reader of novels throughout her life.
Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row.
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Leisure and Society
Queen Victoria
Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson
, Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
(whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin.
In September 1819 the European Magazine carried a poem in praise of AJV
, in which various Muses compete for possession of her.
Axon, William E. A., and Ernest Hartley Coleridge. “Anna Jane Vardill Niven, the Authoress of ’Christobell,’ the Sequel to Coleridge’s ’Christabel.’ With a Bibliography. With an Additional Note on ’Christabel’”. Transactions of the Royal Society of Literature, Vol.
She and her Breton maid Marie were the only European women present during the siege of Delhi. When the time had come for women and children to leave, HT
was too advanced in her pregnancy...
Education
Sarah Tytler
From a young age Henrietta Keddie (later ST
) loved to read, and one of her earliest memories was being introduced by her father to the town's only bookseller as my little girl who is...
Education
Susan Tweedsmuir
She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer
's...
Family and Intimate relationships
Violet Trefusis
Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott
, Baudelaire
, Dumas
, Rostand
's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin.
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Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo.
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Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton.
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Education
Annie Tinsley
She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer
to Beattie
,
Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner.
The origin of the title has not been established: it may have come from Sir Walter Scott
's Peveril of the Peak, or from any one of the several place-names in which this element...
Textual Features
Elizabeth Thomas
Though her fascinating, good-hearted, but free-thinking, twenty-year-old, student Baron goes in for solitary rambles like his original (Childe Harold), this habit is less emphasised than his poetry. His verses are not wistful or Romantic but...
Literary responses
Jemima Tautphoeus
The novel was very popular in both England and Bavaria. The general view was that there is no novel . . . in which the epithet charming could be applied with more strict propriety...
Literary responses
Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan
The review in the Critical made nostalgic reference to pleasure in Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, and continued: As a national writer, we cannot too much admire her sentiments; and, as a descriptive writer...
Textual Production
Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS
expressed decorous dismay when her friend Sir Walter Scott
made public her authorship of the comic and outspoken ballad Ugly Meg.
Timeline
By 20 February 1908: K. L. Montgomery dedicated their historical...
Women writers item
By 20 February 1908
K. L. Montgomery
dedicated their historicalnovelColonel Kate to Sir Walter Scott
.
1920: The number of Miners' Institutes (which included...