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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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 ...
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 She set great store by the idea of duty, but seems to have become withdrawn...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	Charlotte Stopes	Her other grandfather, William Carmichael , was a solicitor, or Writer to the Signet. In this capacity he assisted and then succeeded Sir Walter Scott . Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924. 12
Family and Intimate relationships	Ellen Wood	EW 's father, Thomas Price , was a glove manufacturer. His grandson describes him as an unambitious and literary man, more fitted for a cathedral stall than the calling he had adopted, Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895. 3 and as...
Family and Intimate relationships	Margaret Calderwood	MC 's mother, born Anne Dalrymple and by marriage Lady Steuart, was one of the youngest of a large family, and described as witty and beautiful. She was a niece of Janet Dalrymple who was...
Family and Intimate relationships	Harriet Tytler	She and her Breton maid Marie were the only European women present during the siege of Delhi. When the time had come for women and children to leave, HT was too advanced in her pregnancy...
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...
Friends, Associates	Dorothea Primrose Campbell	DPC corresponded with Walter Scott , who offered moral and some material support. Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland, 1817.
Friends, Associates	Anna Eliza Bray	This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott , Amelia Opie , Letitia Elizabeth Landon , John Murray , Robert Southey , and later with Southey's second wife,...
Friends, Associates	Anna Seward	In her last years AS availed herself of the services of a Miss Fern as a (presumably paid) companion. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 244-6 She had struck up an acquaintance with the young Walter Scott (who sent some of...

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