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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 | 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 Woolley, Benjamin. The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason and Byron’s Daughter. Macmillan, 1999. 217 |
| Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
was one of twenty Scottish authors invited to contribute a monologue to a collaborative work entitled Dear Scotland, which was first performed by the Scottish National Theatre
on 24 April 2014 as a... |
| 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 | Joanna Baillie | Here she gathered together poems by such writers as Walter Scott
, George Crabbe
, William Wordsworth
, Robert Southey
, Felicia Hemans
(whose work Baillie warmly admired), Anne Grant
of Laggan, Anna Maria Porter |
| Textual Production | Sarojini Naidu | For SN
, writing began as an act of rebellion. She wrote her first poem at the age of eleven when she became frustrated with an algebra problem, and thereupon decided to become a poet.... |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Sara Coleridge | In her years growing up, SC
frequently visited the William WordsworthWordsworth
family at Rydal Mount. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, and Sara Coleridge. Sara Coleridge, a Victorian Daughter: Her Life and Essays. Yale University Press, 1989. 24 |
| 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... |
| 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 |
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