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 Emily Gerard
At eleven or twelve EG began to scribble in secret—poetry of course; for what youthful writer at that stage of his or her existence would stoop to prose! Most of her poems were elegies on...
Textual Production Mary Brunton
She had nearly finished that part of the novel set in Scotland when in July that year Walter Scott published Waverley. At first she thought she had better cancel her own Scottish scenes, but...
Textual Production Mary Fortune
Although stories in Memoirs of an Australian Police Officer and Adventures of an Australian Mounted Trooper first appeared without attribution, a number of them were soon re-issued under his own name by James Skipp Borlase
Textual Production Sarah Stickney Ellis
In her preface to the poem she outlines theories of poetry, taking much the same approach towards it that she had towards fiction: that verse, like prose, would benefit from attention to simple, everyday life...
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.
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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 Mary Russell Mitford
MRM was working on this poem by July 1810.
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.
1: 91
She submitted it in manuscript to Samuel Taylor Coleridge for criticism and suggestions. He suggested some cuts, most of which she happily agreed to...
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 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.
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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...

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