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.
Head-and-shoulders painting of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1822. Scott is wearing a black coat, high collar, and yellow waistcoat adorned with a heavy watch-chain. Scottish National Galleries, Edinborough.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Plumptre
By contrast, the youngest sister, Jemima (baptised at Cambridge on 29 December 1769), who also became a novelist, seems to have lost contact with most of her family; not one of them appears on her...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Grant
AG 's parents were married in 1753; they moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
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Her mother, Catherine (Mackenzie) MacVicar , was a grand-daughter of the ancient family of Stewart, settled at Invernahyle in Argyllshire...
Family and Intimate relationships Susan Ferrier
The first important position of James Ferrier , SF 's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll ...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Trefusis
Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott , Baudelaire , Dumas , Rostand 's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
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Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
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Family and Intimate relationships George Eliot
One of her resources during his illness was reading to him from the works of Sir Walter Scott .
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
312
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Webb
MW 's mother, Sarah Alice Meredith , claimed relationship with Sir Walter Scott , whose surname was her birth name. She set great store by the idea of duty, but seems to have become withdrawn...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Scott
Her mother, Frances, Lady Douglas , had had a deeply unhappy childhood, since her own mother appeared to entertain for her nothing but dislike and contempt, and treated her in a way that appears to...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Charlotte Bury
Her second marriage shocked her friends and family, including her children. Although Bury was a clergyman from a good family, he had no fortune and was fifteen years younger than she was. Scott called him...
Family and Intimate relationships Dorothea Du Bois
This most sensational trial of the mid-century was reported in detail by the Gentleman's Magazine the following year, and used in more or less avowed fictions by Eliza Haywood in Memoirs of an Unfortunate Young...
Family and Intimate relationships Alison Cockburn
AC was both a cousin, through her mother, and a great-aunt, through one of her sisters, of Walter Scott . First meeting him when she was in her sixties and he was not yet six...
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Howitt
In Leicester she met William Howitt ; she later visited his family at Heanor in Derbyshire. His mother was a compounder of herbal medicines. William loved Walter Scott , the Romantic poets, and the...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Hunt
VH 's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt , born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy and William Wordsworth , John Ruskin ...
Friends, Associates Mary Martha Sherwood
Meeting the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry , MMS discussed with her the danger of celebrity, for females especially, and their respective temptations.
Sherwood, Mary Martha, and Henry Sherwood. The Life of Mrs. Sherwood. Editor Kelly, Sophia, Darton, 1854.
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She also enjoyed a meeting with William Wilberforce , and later another...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Wordsworth
DW 's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury and Mary Ann Lamb . She was very close to Coleridge , who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June...
Friends, Associates Alison Cockburn
She wrote that some of my most steady friends thro' Life were my childhood companions, girls she had been at school with.
Cockburn, Alison. Letters and Memoirs. Editor Craig-Brown, Thomas, David Douglas, 1900.
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Besides Ramsay (whom, too, she had known since her girlhood), Burns

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