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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Textual Production	Lady Anne Barnard	The words were printed anonymously in the second edition of Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, edited by David Herd , 1776. LAB did not admit her authorship until 1823, when she confided her secret...
Textual Production	Lady Louisa Stuart	LLS collaborated with Sir Walter Scott on his spoof, Private Letters of the Seventeenth Century. Printed in part in this year, it did not appear complete until the twentieth century, long after both Scott's...
Textual Production	Margaret Forster	MF published The Bride of Lowther Fell, A Romance: the word romance, echoing Sir Walter Scott 's The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), suggests the gothic, or rather the mock-gothic. “The Times Digital Archive 1785-2007”. Thompson Gale: The Times Digital Archive. (23 October 1980): 15
Textual Production	Lydia Maria Child	The story of her researching this book at the Boston Athenæum is not quite accurate, since few of her borrowings from that institution were on the topic of slavery. Clifford, Deborah Pickman. Crusader for Freedom. Beacon Press, 1992. 99 Her preface declares that a...
Textual Production	Amelia Opie	At about the same date she published several Recollections of an Authoress in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal. Each of these dealt with a particular author she had known, including Stéphanie-Félicité de Genlis and Sir Walter Scott . Opie, Amelia. “Introduction”. The Collected Poems of Amelia Alderson Opie, edited by Shelley King and John B. Pierce, Oxford University Press, 2009, p. xxxvii - lxx. lv
Textual Production	George Eliot	Many early extant letters of GE 's date from her unhappy, adolescent, Evangelical period, and have a tone of self-righteousness and censoriousness of others and of herself which is not pleasant to modern readers. In...
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	Joanna Baillie	She agreed to do this without payment, though Thomson gave her an Indian shawl when adding to his first request six years later. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, 1999, pp. 1-25. 9, 11 Baillie at first demurred, claiming that her talents did not...
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	Lady Louisa Stuart	LLS expressed decorous dismay when her friend Sir Walter Scott made public her authorship of the comic and outspoken ballad Ugly Meg.
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	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	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	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...

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