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
Education Marie Corelli
Looking back on her early education, MC wrote I managed to develop into a curiously determined independent little personality, with ideas and opinions more suited to some clever young man. . . . I instinctively...
Intertextuality and Influence Louisa Stuart Costello
Through her work on early French poetry LSC became a friend of Sir Walter Scott , who caused her to devote herself entirely to literature.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2025, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Both the original Dictionary of National Biography and its successor...
Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Cuthbertson
Walter Scott was hunting for a copy of this book in about 1813, calling it a now-forgotten novel;
qtd. in
Garside, Peter. “Walter Scott and the ’Common’ Novel, 1808-1819”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, Vol.
3
, Sept. 1999.
critic Peter Garside suspects that it exercised some influence on his Guy Mannering. Garside calls...
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 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.
Education Florence Dixie
Lady Florence was at first educated at home in Scotland. After a first, unsuccessful attempt to place her in a convent she had, in France, an Irish Catholic governess whom she calls Miss O'Leary...
Education Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Conan Doyle, later SACD , attended private schools (paid for by uncles, not his parents), latterly as a boarder at Stonyhurst College , a Jesuit-run, Roman Catholic public school in England. He acquired a passion...
Intertextuality and Influence Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
In Through the Magic DoorSACD wrote of those authors whom he felt to have been his most important influences, including Froissart , Boswell , Walter Scott , Thomas Babington Macaulay , Carlyle , Melville
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...
Reception Carol Ann Duffy
The year following her Selected Poems, CAD won the Lannan Literary Award in the USA, and her work was included in the second volume of Penguin Modern Poets. A decade after that,...
Education Toru Dutt
TD and Aru were briefly enrolled at a boarding school in Nice where they studied French.
Rao, Raja, and Toru Dutt. “Aru and Toru”. Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan, Writers Workshop, 1972.
After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick
Travel Maria Edgeworth
ME spent two weeks at Abbotsford in Melrose with Sir Walter Scott and his family.
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
418
Travel Maria Edgeworth
ME (with all her writing about Ireland long behind her) visited Killarney in County Kerry with Sir Walter Scott and J. G. Lockhart .
Butler, Marilyn. Maria Edgeworth: A Literary Biography. Clarendon, 1972.
215, 420
Textual Production Maria Edgeworth
ME published three volumes of Tales of Fashionable Life, which Walter Scott called a series of moral fictions.
McCormack, William John et al. “Introduction”. The Absentee, The World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 1988, p. ix - xlvii.
xlvi
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

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