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	Georgiana Fullerton	She could read by four-and-a-half, and recalls an early admiration for hymns by Anna Letitia Barbauld and Maria Edgeworth . Julius Cæsar, the first Shakespearean play that she saw, left a lasting impression. Later...
Education	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Conan Doyle, later SACD , attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College , a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic public school in England. He acquired a passion...
Education	Emily Hickey	She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott , Tennyson , and Barrett Browning numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare , as he was repelled by...
Education	Mary Louisa Molesworth	Educated privately at home, MLM could not remember a time before she could read, nor any time when reading stories was not my greatest delight. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Mrs. Molesworth. Bodley Head. 21 She began formal learning with her mother. She read...
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. 47 (MG thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...
Education	Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck	In the house of an aunt she was surprised to find novels (particularly those of Richardson ) a topic of conversation, Schimmelpenninck, Mary Anne. Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck. Editor Hankin, Christiana C., Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1: 118 and that (in her own judgement) Fielding and Smollett , and various...
Education	Kate Chopin	Following her father's death, her education was supplemented by her maternal great-grandmother Victoire Verdon Charleville , who placed a particular emphasis on French and music.The young Kate O'Flaherty was also a voracious reader, and enjoyed...
Education	Sarah Grand	There she read authors such as Dickens , Scott , and Thackeray . Grand, Sarah. Sex, Social Purity and Sarah Grand: Volume 1. Editor Heilmann, Ann, Routledge. 253 She took advantage of the cultivated atmosphere in which she grew up, and yet later judged that she had been neither...
Education	Anne Manning	AM was taught at home by both her mother and her father, with the help of masters for special accomplishments, Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 211 and for a short time by a governess. Charlotte Yonge , who wrote of...
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	Mary Wesley	Mary acquired various country skills, like milking (by hand), butter-making, and of course riding. Wesley, Mary, and Kim Sayer. Part of the Scenery. Bantam. 19, 20 She was not expected, however, to need to acquire skills that were marketable. Initially she was educated by about...
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	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. 124 Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution
Education	Doris Lessing	Before attending school and after she left, Doris educated herself by reading. Her parents possessed copies of the classics, like Scott , Dickens , and Kipling . She read widely in the nineteenth century—her favourites...
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...

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