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 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 Grace Aguilar
GA 's early historical romance in the style of Scott , The Days of Bruce, was published posthumously by her mother .
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996.
139
Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993.
Textual Production Mary Bryan
Letters exchanged between MB and Sir Walter Scott survive for these years; the correspondence, however, may not have ended in 1827.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
Textual Production Mary Bryan
MB sent Scott , in a letter, a poem entitled The Village Maid.
Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7, Dec. 2001.
Textual Production Catherine Fanshawe
According to Sir Walter Scott , CF and her sisters were responsible for the first publication, in 1829, of the memoirs of their seventeenth-century ancestor Ann Fanshawe . He described it as a new publishd...
Textual Production Vita Sackville-West
By the following year she was writing: not only a diary, and soon an extensive correspondence, but also poetry (not about adolescent feelings but about places and historical characters); long, romantic, historical novels in the...
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 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 Christian Isobel Johnstone
CIJ published The Cook and Housewife's Manual under the pseudonym Margaret Dods, in honour of Walter Scott 's character from the Cleikum Inn in St. Ronan's Well.
Meg Dods from St. Ronan's Well...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
Her prefatory praise of Sir Walter Scott for having made the English understand Scotland, and of Charles Lever for only now beginning to make the English understand Ireland, has led careless readers to suppose that...
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.
114
Later she composed an essay on the imagination.
Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999.
217
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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