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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Textual Features Elizabeth Ham
This is perhaps the most remarkable fictional treatment of the general period of the 1798 Rebellion in Ireland. EH thus defends her once-controversial subject-matter, and her remarkable empathy with the rebels' position: the tale...
Textual Features Ethel Savi
Writing of Savi's attempts to render Indian speech in English, critic Laxmi Moktali cites Sir Walter Scott 's introduction of Indian words about food and dress, for example, as the beginning of an experiment with...
Textual Features Muriel Jaeger
In an amusing fantasy entitled Trial of Jane Austen the accused stands charged with masquerading as a great writer.
Jaeger, Muriel. Shepherd’s Trade. Arthur H. Stockwell, 1965.
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Pompous or foolish witnesses accuse her of ignoring national politics, social problems, sex, professional careerism...
Textual Features Margaret Oliphant
This novel relates to her earlier Hester, 1883 and Joyce, 1888. Kirsteen's brutal father (who has been manager of a slave plantation, and goes as far as killing to impose his will on...
Textual Features Grace Aguilar
GA 's representation of Jews and Jewish history was profoundly influenced by novelists, pre-eminently Walter Scott , and by historians including Americans Washington Irving and William H. Prescott .
Ragussis, Michael. Figures of Conversion: "The Jewish Question" and English National Identity. Duke University Press, 1995.
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Textual Production Anna Gordon
Walter Scott invited Robert Jamieson for a visit during which they exchanged copies of ballads derived from two separate manuscripts of AG 's collection of ballads, bringing their joint stores to about fifty of her...
Textual Production Carola Oman
CO published her final biography, The Wizard of the North, The Life of Sir Walter Scott.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Textual Production Mary Bryan
MB (now Bedingfield) accompanied her last surviving letter to Scott with a poem entitled Return my Muse, which laments her final decline into blindness.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
Textual Production Lady Eleanor Butler
Sarah Ponsonby bequeathed the journals to Caroline Hamilton , and Harriet Pigott therefore supposed that they were written by Ponsonby .
Butler, Lady Eleanor et al. “Foreword and Editorial Materials”. The Hamwood Papers of the Ladies of Llangollen and Caroline Hamilton, edited by Eva Mary Bell, Macmillan, 1930, p. vii - viii; various pages.
vii
They have been published in several selections: by Mrs G. H. [Eva Mary] Bell
Textual Production Mary Russell Mitford
As early as 1824 MRM was asking the advice of friends as to whether they thought she could be a novelist.
Mitford, Mary Russell. The Life of Mary Russell Mitford: Told by Herself in Letters To Her Friends. Editor L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, Harper and Brothers, 1870, 2 vols.
2: 29
She added one of her frequent disclaimers: I write merely for remuneration...
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME published three volumes of Tales of Fashionable Life, which Walter Scott called a series of moral fictions.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS , Poetical Works, was posthumously published, edited at her express desire by Walter Scott (at this date a famous poet but not yet a novelist).
Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series.
3d ser. 20 (1810): 448
Textual Production Augusta Ada Byron
As an adolescent Ada composed an essay on Sir Walter Scott 's Heart of Midlothian, and a handful of creative tales.
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999.
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Later she composed an essay on the imagination.
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999.
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Textual Production Joanna Baillie
Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott , George Crabbe , William Wordsworth , Robert Southey , Felicia Hemans (whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter
Textual Production Anna Seward
AS wrote her first surviving letter to the young Walter Scott , with a detailed critique of his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, of which he had sent her the first volume (not the...

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