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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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... |
| Textual Production | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | In an AdvertisementEIS
claimed that she wrote this book before the appearance (in 1826) of two other historical novels about the Civil War period, Brambletye House by Horace Smith
and Woodstock by Sir Walter Scott |
| Textual Production | Catherine Hutton | CH
anonymously supplied materials for the memoir of Robert Bage
that appeared in volume 9 of Scott
's Ballantyne's Novelists' Library; catalogues list the prefatory notices as by Scott. Gentleman’s Magazine. Various publishers. 1 (1846): 436 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
| Textual Production | Mary Bryan | MB
mentions in 1815 another work which she abandoned unfinished, on the grounds that some unnamed individuals might have had their feelings wounded by it. Bryan, Mary, and Jonathan Wordsworth. Sonnets and Metrical Tales 1815. Woodstock Books, 1996. 99n |
| Textual Production | Anna Seward | AS
's six-volume Letters . . . written between the years 1784 and 1807 were posthumously published: not edited by Scott
(as she had requested). Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 3d ser. 23 (1811): 112 |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Susanna Watts | This includes poems on Elizabeth Heyrick
, William Cowper
, and Sir Walter Scott
, A Prayer: for the Slaves, Delicacy: Inscribed to the Ladies, several of natural description, and yet others on... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sarah Green | M. G. Lewis
is a more complicated case, treated with some nuance. SG
admires The Monk but feels that after that Lewis's real talent was obscured by the baneful influence of German fiction: she agrees... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Emily Shore | The diary provides a full and vivid account of girlhood in the years leading up to Victoria
's reign, in addition to musings on familial and personal topics. It contains substantial literary criticism, such as... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Elizabeth Pipe Wolferstan | Here she expounds her method of teaching her grandchildren [or step-grandchildren] through play, and features acute critical comment on female writers for children. In particular, she makes detailed, intelligent criticism of Maria Edgeworth
's children's... |
| Travel | Maria Jane Jewsbury | MJJ
travelled to Edinburgh, where she met Walter Scott
. Leighton, Angela, and Margaret Reynolds, editors. Victorian Women Poets: An Anthology. Blackwell, 1995. 28 |
| Travel | Maria Edgeworth | ME
spent two weeks at Abbotsford in Melrose with Sir Walter Scott
and his family. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 418 |
| Travel | Maria Edgeworth | ME
(with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott
and J. G. Lockhart
. Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 215, 420 |
| Travel | Felicia Hemans | FH
took the first of two trips to Scotland, where she made a visit like an old familiar friend qtd. in Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 180 |
| Travel | Elizabeth Isabella Spence | Her more northerly Scottish journey took her in summer 1816 from the painfully Scottish-associated Flodden Field in Northumberland (no doubt with Scott
's Marmion in mind) to further informative sojourns in Edinburgh and Glasgow... |
| Travel | Cecil Frances Alexander | During her youth, the future CFA
traveled to Edinburgh where she met Sir Walter Scott
, and watched the famous Scottish landscape painter, Rev. John Thomson
, brother to her uncle Thomas Thomson
, at... |
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