Sir Walter Scott

15 August 1771 - 21 September 1832

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	Emily Lawless	The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of...
Literary responses	Maria Edgeworth	Walter Scott 's praise of ME 's admirable Irish portraits Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986. 341 in Waverley (July 1814) must have been useful publicity. Scott expanded his praise in his edition of 1829 Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986. 352-3
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. qtd. in Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 145 Walter Scott however, despite the invocation of Dryden and Pope, argued that as paraphrase...
Literary responses	Jane Austen	Sir Walter Scott recorded in his journal on 14 March 1826 a judgement which has become famous: read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and...
Literary responses	Jane West	Unlike JW 's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 373 David Thame believes that this and West's next novel represent a substantial change of register from gossiping...
Literary responses	Susan Ferrier	Clavering urged SF not to alter (presumably not to tone down) her Lady McLaughlan portrait. The novel's immediate success was crucially boosted by the praise of Sir Walter Scott . SF read it aloud to...
Literary responses	Jane Austen	Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?). qtd. in Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997. 252 For...
Literary responses	Anne Bannerman	The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott , John Leyden , and William Wordsworth . Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 38 (1803): 110ff Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999. 143 The Poetical Register praised the volume for poetical...
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	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	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 The Critical Review said that...
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	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 Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , and others. At first AG rejected...

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