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
Friends, Associates Cecil Frances Alexander
The writers whom CFA most admired during her childhood were Scott , Gray , and, to a lesser extent, Wordsworth and Byron .
Alexander, Cecil Frances. “Preface”. Poems, edited by William, 1824 - 1911 Alexander, Macmillan, 1896, p. v - xxix.
xxiii
Around 1833, Cecil Frances Humphreys came into contact with a significant...
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 Anne Grant
In the spring of 1809, AG went to Edinburgh in search of a house. Invited to her home by the Duchess of Gordon , she met there Sir Walter Scott . Around the same time...
Friends, Associates Maria Riddell
In England as in Scotland MR had a wide circle of friends. They included the artists Thomas Lawrence and Henry Fuseli and the writers Samuel Rogers , Richard Sharp , and Sir James Mackintosh ...
Friends, Associates Anne Bannerman
A friend who was crucial in AB 's career was Robert Anderson , editor of a famous poetry anthology and of the Edinburgh Magazine.
qtd. in
Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999.
130
Other important friends were John Leyden (linguist, poet, and...
Friends, Associates Anne Grant
She became a noted figure in Edinburgh literary and social circles. Among her friends were Lady Charlotte Campbell (later Bury) ,
Paston, George, and George Paston. “Mrs. Grant of Laggan”. Little Memoirs of the Eighteenth Century, E. P. Dutton, 1901, pp. 237-96.
284
Lord Jeffrey , Sir Walter Scott , Henry Mackenzie , and other literati...
Friends, Associates Anna Letitia Barbauld
Joanna Baillie , who lived near the Barbaulds in Hampstead, was one of ALB 's greatest friends. In Barbauld's later years her friends included Samuel Rogers , Madame D'Arblay , Eliza Fletcher (who first visited...
Friends, Associates Amelia Opie
In 1813 she again met de Staël (who was visiting London) and introduced her to Elizabeth Inchbald . Others she met after her husband's death included Richard Brinsley Sheridan , Byron , and Sir Walter Scott
Friends, Associates Joanna Baillie
JB first met Walter Scott (a very new literary celebrity); she really got to know him by March 1808, when she visited him at 39 Castle Street, Edinburgh.
Carhart, Margaret S. The Life and Work of Joanna Baillie. Reprint of 1923, Archon Books, 1970.
21-2
Friends, Associates Lady Anne Barnard
LAB 's later social life in London is mentioned in the diary of Frances Burney .
Graham, Henry Grey. Scottish Men of Letters in the Eighteenth Century. Adam and Charles Black, 1908.
345
Sir Walter Scott renewed his early acquaintance with her after fifty years.
Friends, Associates Felicia Skene
From her youth FS was accustomed to mixing with distinguished people. Sir Walter Scott , a friend of both of her parents, found her youthful company a relief when he was old and ill. In...
Friends, Associates Lady Charlotte Bury
During her first marriage Lady Charlotte frequently entertained the literary celebrities of her day.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989.
She was a friend and patron of Sir Walter Scott , and a friend (with her daughters) of the exiled Italian...
Friends, Associates Margaret Holford
Holford seems to have cared about making influential friends, and succeeded in doing so although she lived in the provinces. She established a correspondence with Sir Walter Scott , and although their relationship got off...
Friends, Associates Lady Louisa Stuart
LLS was introduced as a young woman into the Bluestocking circle. Her friendship with the younger Louisa Clinton produced some attractive letters and that with Frances, Lady Douglas , produced a remarkable memoir. Lady Douglas's...
Friends, Associates Maria Jane Jewsbury
Determined to be a writer, MJJ actively sought literary society. Her other literary friends included author and editor Samuel Laman Blanchard , dramatist James Robinson Planché , the Rev. George Robert Gleig , and Sir Walter Scott

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