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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 | 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 | Joanna Baillie | The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 24 (1798): 1-22 |
| 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... |
| Literary responses | Elizabeth Siddal | In the most sustained consideration of the literary material, Constance Hassett
argues that what has been read as autobiographical is on the contrary a typically Victorian tonality. Hassett, Constance W. “Elizabeth Siddal’s Poetry: A Problem and Some Suggestions”. Victorian Poetry, Vol. 35 , No. 4, 1 Dec.–28 Feb. 1997, pp. 443-70. |
| Literary responses | Lady Charlotte Bury | Assessments of LCB
's work during her lifetime varied wildly. Sir Walter Scott
quoted her in print; Sydney Morgan
respected her work; but to most people her social identity eclipsed her literary one. Her early... |
| 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, 2002. 76-7 |
| Literary responses | Catherine Fanshawe | CF
's immediately posthumous reputation rested, like her writings themselves, on oral tradition. She had the admiration of William Cowper
and Walter Scott
, as well as Joanna Baillie
, Anne Grant
, and Mary Berry |
| Literary responses | Beatrice Harraden | Marie Belloc Lowndes
described this book for the Times Literary Supplement as a strangely poignant drama and likened it to Mary Shelley
's Frankenstein and Sir Walter Scott
's Waverley for its comparable ability to... |
| Literary responses | Alison Cockburn | Burns
reflected the influence of Cockburn's I've seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling in one of his earliest compositions, I dream'd I lay where flowers were springing (first published in 1788). Fordonski, Krzysztof. “Robert Burns and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski: A Translatological Investigation into the Mystery of ’I dream’d I lay’”. Scottish Literary Review, Vol. 5 , No. 1, 1 Mar. 2013– 2024, pp. 13-29. 16, 26 |
| Literary responses | Anna Jane Vardill | 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. 2nd series 28 , 1970, pp. 57-88. 65-6 |
| Literary responses | Jane Porter | The notice in the Critical Review began by using this novel as a peg for a defence of good novels in general, especially, apparently, those dealing with national histories. The existence of many incompetent novelists... |
| Literary responses | Anna Steele | In a lengthy review the Times noted that while Gardenhurst had many faults typical of first novels (citing other examples from Sir Walter Scott
, George Eliot
, and Charles Dickens
), it nonetheless has... |
| 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 | 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 | 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! qtd. in Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre, 2008. |
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