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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Education	Beatrix Potter	Beatrix, educated at home and six years older than her brother, was a solitary child. She had few toys; but she became deeply interested in science, and was also, from an early age, devoted to...
Education	Matilda Betham-Edwards	Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893. 124 Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	One of the poems MG had to learn for recitation was Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor (later Gilbert) . Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press, 1962. 47 (MG thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...
Education	Pauline Johnson	PJ was educated at home first by her mother , who introduced her to the English Romantics. She was also taught by a governess in her early years. Chiefswood was full of books, and she...
Education	Maria Theresa Longworth	MTL was educated in France at an Ursuline convent school. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements. She later undertook further study in Italy. She consequently became familiar with both French and Italian. Rosenman, Ellen Bayuk. Unauthorized Pleasures. Cornell University Press, 2003. 137 Erickson, Arvel B., and John R. McCarthy. “The Yelverton Case: Civil Legislation and Marriage”. Victorian Studies, Vol. 14 , 1971, pp. 275-91. 275 From her writings it is clear...
Education	Marjorie Bowen	To educate herself further, she read widely, setting herself literary exercises, writing verse imitating or dramatising Chaucer , Spenser , and Browning . However, she writes that at that time, I had read no really...
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Education	Queen Victoria	Princess Alexandrina Victoria had begun reading her first novel, Sir Walter Scott 's Bride of Lammermoor; she remained an avid reader of novels throughout her life. Longford, Elizabeth. Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed. Harper and Row, 1964. 43
Education	Toru Dutt	TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French. Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick
Education	Harriet Beecher Stowe	HBS 's domestic training consisted of learning knitting, sewing, and Presbyterian and Episcopal church catechisms from an aunt and grandmother who were skilled at weaving and embroidery. Hedrick, Joan. Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1994. 12-13 Her father did not allow novels in...
Education	Elinor Glyn	Since she abhorred her governesses, Elinor took her education into her own hands, reading every book she could in the library: Pepys 's diary, Cervantes ' Don Quixote (an eighteenth-century French version), Scott , Agnes
Education	Elma Napier	In spite of the fact that her family did not value literature as much as games, and that her mother had specific ideas about what girls should read, EN devoured every book she could get...
Education	John Ruskin	Taught at home until the age of fourteen by his parents and private tutors, JR developed his drawing, and received an education that encouraged a love of Romantic Literature (including Byron , Wordsworth , and...
Education	Mary Sewell	At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...
Education	A. S. Byatt	She was educated at Sheffield High School and, from 1949, at the Mount School in York, a Quaker boarding school where her mother had taught English. ASB felt awkward, anxious, and socially isolated at...

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