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	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. qtd. in Green, Roger Lancelyn. Mrs. Molesworth. Bodley Head, 1961. 21 She began formal learning with her mother. She read...
Education	Annie Tinsley	She was also taught, perhaps between schools, by her father. By the age of eleven she had devoured the poetry of the British Classics from Chaucer to Beattie , qtd. in Peet, Henry. Mrs. Charles Tinsley, Novelist and Poet. Butler and Tanner, 1930. 9 as well as Burns ,...
Education	Frances Mary Peard	However, according to her biographer, Mary J. Y. Harris , she was largely self-taught. Her mother never restricted her reading, and she later remembered tackling at an early age such classics as Scott , Shakespeare
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, 1897. 211 and for a short time by a governess. Charlotte Yonge , who wrote of...
Education	Fredrika Bremer	As FB grew older, she became increasingly interested in novels. At the age of fifteen she was beyond measure happy Bremer, Fredrika. Life, Letters, and Posthumous Works of Fredrika Bremer. Editor Bremer, Charlotte, Sampson Low, Son and Marston, 1868, https://archive.org/details/lifelettersposth00bremuoft/mode/2up. 34 to be allowed the privilege of reading fiction for a half hour every night...
Education	Catherine Carswell	In her unfinished autobiography, CC remembers that while she grew up there were no novels in the house except Sir Walter Scott 's, and a small, fat, small-printed volume, bound in ornamental red and black...
Education	Bessie Rayner Parkes	BRP taught herself to read. By the age of seven she had completed all of Scott 's novels. Crawford, Anne, editor. The Europa Biographical Dictionary of British Women. Europa Publications, 1983. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 265 She learnt both French and German with remarkable ease. Lowndes, Marie Belloc. I, Too, Have Lived in Arcadia. Macmillan, 1941. 265 She developed a passionate admiration, and...
Education	Emily Brontë	Thereafter, Patrick Brontë educated his remaining children at home, using standard educational texts including Thomas Salmon 's A New Geographical and Historical Grammar, a condensed version of Oliver Goldsmith 's History of England,...
Education	George Eliot	Her devotion to John Bunyan 's Pilgrim's Progress remained unchanged during this period. She also read heavyweight works of theology, Hannah More 's letters, and a life of William Wilberforce . By late 1838, however...
Education	Pearl S. Buck	Mr Kung despised fiction and the Sydenstricker library contained only the supposedly factual Plutarch 's Lives and Foxe 's Book of Martyrs, but Pearl read fiction avidly in both Chinese and English, devouring Shakespeare
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, 2001. 19, 20 She was not expected, however, to need to acquire skills that were marketable. Initially she was educated by about...
Education	Jean Rhys	At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...
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	Rebecca Harding Davis	Influenced by her mother's linguistic virtuosity and her father's storytelling and love of classic literature, Rebecca grew up well acquainted with early American history (whose evidence lay close at hand) and with the stories...

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