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.
Head-and-shoulders painting of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1822. Scott is wearing a black coat, high collar, and yellow waistcoat adorned with a heavy watch-chain. Scottish National Galleries, Edinborough.

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Connections 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 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 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
The Athenæum was downright hostile to the book's subject: Do...
Literary Setting Catherine Gore
The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain,
Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley, 1849.
title-page
but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
Material Conditions of Writing Iris Murdoch
Though she was a contented only child, IM said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the...
names Joanna Baillie
Walter Scott teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited...
names Christian Isobel Johnstone
  • BirthName: Christian Isobel Tod or Todd
    Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010.
    209

  • Married: McLiesh or McLeish; Johnstone
  • Pseudonyms: The Author of Clan-Albin; Aunt Jane; Margaret Dods
    She took this name from a novel by Sir Walter Scott .
Occupation Fanny Kemble
She toured England, Scotland, and Ireland with the Covent Garden Theatre company, met Walter Scott , and was feted by Lady Morgan in Dublin.
Marshall, Dorothy. Fanny Kemble. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1977.
54-6
In May of 1831 she was presented...
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning .
Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989.
66
Occupation Elizabeth Siddal
After this show, Siddal's illustration of Scott 's Clerk Saunders was part of an exhibition that toured the United States; beyond these two instances, her work was never exhibited in her lifetime. Charles Eliot Norton

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