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	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	Edna Lyall	Since the cousin with whom she shared lessons was three years older, Ada Ellen read a good many books at that time which must have been far beyond . . . [her] powers. At twelve...
Education	Alice Meynell	In the summer of 1852 Elizabeth and Alice Thompson (later AM ) began their education under their father's instruction. Recording her daughters' lessons, Christiana Thompson writes, Dear little angels do their writing . ....
Education	Jean Ingelow	In later years she expanded her reading to include Shakespeare , Southey , Scott , Wordsworth , and Tennyson . She also read Henry Drummond 's Natural Law in the Spiritual World and hisTropical Africa and Charles Lamb 's Letters. Some Recollections of Jean Ingelow and Her Early Friends. Kennikat Press, 1972. 150-1 British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. Peters, Maureen. Jean Ingelow: Victorian Poetess. Boydell, 1972. 23
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	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	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	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...
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	Carola Oman	The children's great delight was their mother reading aloud: theLamb s' Tales from Shakespeare, Sir Walter Scott 's poems, William Edmonstoune Aytoun 's Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, 1865, Mary Martha Sherwood
Education	Charlotte Dempster	In early adulthood CD continued to study on her own: she read the poetry of Sir Walter Scott and often spent her mornings reading history, writing, or drawing. Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920. 40, 42 She was also fluent in French.

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