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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Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Hamilton	While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith and her family. Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols. 1: 152-4 Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811. 151 In Edinburgh in 1803...
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. 2 Besides Ramsay (whom, too, she had known since her girlhood), Burns
Friends, Associates	Mary Boyle	MB noted in her reminiscences that she had been on terms of close and tender friendship with many great men. Boyle, Mary. Mary Boyle. Her Book. Editor Boyle, Sir Courtenay Edmund, E. P. Dutton; John Murray, 1902. xxiii Her correspondence with some of them has since been published. She called G. P. R. James
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. 537 She also enjoyed a meeting with William Wilberforce , and later another...
Friends, Associates	Martin Ross	She was amused at his appearance and manner: her likening him to a Walter Scott character might particularly have displeased him. He looked a cross between a Dominie Sampson and a starved R. C. curate...
Friends, Associates	Catherine Hutton	CH 's friends included novelists Sarah Harriet Burney and Robert Bage , publisher Sir Richard Phillips , Elizabeth Arnold (whom she calls sister of Catharine Macaulay , but who was actually the sister of Macaulay's...
Friends, Associates	Anna Maria Porter	The young Walter Scott was a neighbour of the Porters in Edinburgh and a childhood friend to AMP and Jane. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992. 265 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. under Jane Porter In London while Anna Maria was growing up, and even after...
Friends, Associates	Mary Bryan	MB approached Sir Walter Scott on 10 June 1818, seeking the furtherance of her literary career. The extant correspondence spans nine years. His side does not survive, and there is no evidence that they ever...
Friends, Associates	Lucy Aikin	LA , dining with Walter Scott , was pleased that though she herself went unnoticed, Scott devoted considerable attention to her aunt Barbauld . Aikin, Lucy. Memoirs, Miscellanies and Letters. Editor Le Breton, Philip Hemery, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, and Green, 1864. 98-9
Friends, Associates	Maria Edgeworth	ME formed warm friendships with Scott and his son-in-law J. G. Lockhart . Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972. 418-20
Friends, Associates	Susan Ferrier	SF and her father made a visit, which was her first, to Walter Scott at Ashistiel (his estate near Selkirk), when he was an eminent poet but not yet a novelist. They had stormy...
Friends, Associates	Felicia Hemans	While in Scotland she met not only Scott and Jeffrey , she met in person her publisher William Blackwood , writer Anne Grant , critic John Wilson , and sculptor Angus Fletcher . Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray, 1836. 347 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, 1839, pp. 1-315. 201
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,...

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