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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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | Felicia Hemans | The play's debut was disappointing. It closed after a single night, though it was remounted with greater success in Edinburgh the following April with Harriet Siddons
in a major role (having been recruited at Joanna Baillie |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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, 1999. 221-2 |
| Literary responses | Emily Lawless | First reviews of With Essex in Ireland were mixed. The New York Tribune felt the work to be uneven, partly on account of Harvey's narration and partly for lack of an adequately engaging plot. New York Tribune. (28 December 1890): 14 |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Wordsworth
in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH
as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin, 1932. 737 |
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles the First was received well by the Athenæum, which indicated that the performance provided genuine satisfaction to a very attentive audience and gratification in its most agreeable shape to the gifted lady, Athenæum. J. Lection. 349 (1834): 508 |
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