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
Reception Lady Charlotte Bury
Walter Scott used verses by her to head a chapter in The Heart of Midlothian, 1818.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
57
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
The year following her Selected Poems, CAD won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...
Reception Catherine Fanshawe
Anne Grant reported that Francis Jeffrey was much struck by a critique of Scott 's The Lady of the Lake (published months earlier) that CF had written in a letter to Grant.
Grant, Anne. Memoir and Correspondence of Mrs. Grant of Laggan. Editor Grant, John Peter, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844, 3 vols.
1: 270
Reception Joanna Baillie
Sarah Siddons , who starred in the play, much admired it.
Dowd, Maureen A. “’By the Delicate Hand of a Female’: Melodramatic Mania and Joanna Baillie’s Spectacular Tragedies”. European Romantic Review, Vol.
9
, No. 4, 1998, pp. 469-00.
480
But JB felt that reviewers cooled towards it once they knew the author was an unknown woman. John any-body would have stood higher...
Reception Jane Porter
The ODNB judged the London scenes (where the hero is living privately in London and trying to make a living out of selling his painting) the most convincing in the book.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Thomas McLean , however...
Reception Felicia Hemans
FH 's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge and Wordsworth , if not Scott and Byron . She proved, as...
Reception Emma Robinson
Henry Fothergill Chorley in his Athenæum review called the novel a tale of terror and adventure, just right for Christmas reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
844 (1843): 1159
The review is listed as by Chorley. Henry's brother John Rutter Chorley
Reception Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
The The Brooklyn Daily Eagle likened its style to that of Sir Walter Scott 's The Lady of the Lake. This notice is more summary than review, but it notes: So far as possible...
Reception Mary Bryan
The Critical Review gave a couple of paragraphs to the collection, praising its soft and genuine sadness, the easy and unpremeditated . . . singularly graceful language, and the refined, enthusiastic, and cultivated mind
qtd. in
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
there...
Reception Felicia Hemans
The Domestic Affections was not reviewed, but FH was slowly gaining recognition. In 1815 Walter Scott published in the Edinburgh Annual Register a poem by her inspired by his novel Waverley.
Hemans, Felicia. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Letters, Reception Materials, edited by Susan J. Wolfson, Princeton University Press, 2000, p. xiii - xxix; various pages.
xxii, xxxv
Reception Anna Eliza Bray
Later in life, she was sometimes referred to as the female Walter Scott.
Schlueter, Paul, and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Garland, 1988.
In his History of the English Novel, Ernest Baker dubbed her a modest imitator of Scott.
qtd. in
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
116: 50
Reception Celia Moss
Galchinsky suggests that in Westernising their tales the Mosses sought to engender greater sympathy from non-Jewish readers, a motive the Athenæum also acknowledges. Galchinsky argues further that the sisters' appropriation of the romance genre, in...
Reception Anne Grant
AG 's reputation was such (after the publication of the Memoirs of an American Lady) that she was one of those confidently stated to be the author of Scott 's Waverley when that novel...
Reception Margaret Holford
It is clear from her correspondence with Joanna Baillie how much Margaret Holford the younger longed for success, and how much persistent energy she devoted to pursuing it. When in 1837-8 John Gibson Lockhart published...
Residence Alison Cockburn
As a widow living in EdinburghAC was, according to Sarah Tytler and Jean L. Watson , a lively cultural influence, serving as a connecting-link between the Edinburgh of Allan Ramsay and Burns , and...

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