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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 Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
in his introduction gave a vivid description of AS
's good looks (even in old age), especially the poetical attributes of dark, flashing eyes and a melodious voice. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 253-4 |
| Literary responses | Anne Marsh | Chorley
's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting... |
| Literary responses | Susanna Centlivre | From this plot Frances Burney
borrowed the four guardians of her heroine in Cecilia. Walter Scott
thought the plot was extravagant enough (when the play was a hundred and ten years old) yet that... |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Anne Grant | The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott
(who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley), Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, 2002, pp. 29-43. 32 |
| Literary responses | Mary Charlton | Sarah Harriet Burney
was clearly more impressed by what she regarded as a popular, even a trashy novel, than she was willing to admit. She called it (in implicit contrast with Walter Scott
) a... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | She was very disappointed when Scott never acknowledged this tribute. After Wallace appeared, Joanna Baillie
wrote to him reminding him of this lapse in manners and implicitly that it was his own fault that Wallace... |
| 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 | Amelia Opie | This novel was an instantaneous success. Of the second edition the Critical Review (of May 1802) wrote: Seldom have we met with any combination of incidents, real or imaginary, which possessed more of the deeply... |
| Literary responses | Rhoda Broughton | The Times marked RB
's death with an editorial asserting her permanent value as a novelist, Times. Times Publishing Company. (7 June 1920): 13 |
| Literary responses | Charlotte Yonge | The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen
's nephew James Austen-Leigh
compared it to the work of Austen and Scott
... |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
confided to Joanna Baillie
after AS
's death that he had developed a most unsentimental horror for her sentimental letters while he was receiving them. qtd. in Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 252 |
| Literary responses | Margaret Holford | Walter Scott
never answered when Holford sent him a copy of Wallace for comment, and was apparently scathing about the poem in remarks made privately to Joanna Baillie. Baillie, Joanna. The Collected Letters of Joanna Baillie. Editor Slagle, Judith Bailey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999, 2 vols. 1: 328 |
| 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, 1999. 194-5 |
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