Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press.
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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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| 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... |
| Literary responses | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Scott
gave this novel qualified praise. He seemed to see it in the light of a legitimate competitor but not a serious rival. Read Elizth. de Bruce—it is very clever but does not show... |
| Literary responses | Jane West | Unlike JW
's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere. |
| Literary responses | Eliza Haywood | The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Athenæum gave this almost a full-page review (far more than it had yet accorded any of the Illustrations). It compared HM
's work in detail with that of Sir Walter Scott
and more... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | The reception of this second long poem was far less favourable than that of Wallace. The Monthly Review denied it literary merit while granting it some potential literary-historical interest. The poem was, wrote the... |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Many reviewers wrongly supposed that Gaston de Blondeville was derivative from Scott
's recent and very successful Kenilworth, which uses the same material. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 194-5 |
| Literary responses | Joanna Baillie | When Baillie re-read her own Witchcraft as a work in progress she wrote: I am inclined to think well of it. Renfrew witches upon a polite stage! Will such a thing ever be endorsed! Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre. |
| 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 Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press. 352-3 |
| Literary responses | Anna Gordon | William Tytler
was followed by many more in his interest in AG
's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee)
, Scott
, Jamieson
, Joseph Ritson
, M. G. Monk Lewis
, Robert Anderson |
| Literary responses | Ann Radcliffe | Anna Seward
, in letters which were to be published in AR
's lifetime, mixed her praise of her gothic oeuvre with some trenchant criticism. Norton, Rictor. Mistress of Udolpho: The Life of Ann Radcliffe. Leicester University Press. 221-2 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The overall reception of this novel was better than that of Deerbrook, although the nobility of the hero was felt to be exaggerated. Roberts, Caroline. The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. University of Toronto Press. 76-7 |
| Literary responses | Harriette Wilson | Contemporary admirers of HW
on literary grounds included Walter Scott
, who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton. 218 |
| 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 | Anna Seward | The Horatian odes received in London literary circles such warm approbation that the poet could not listen with undelighted ears. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 145 |
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