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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.
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| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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 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 | 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. |
| Friends, Associates | Grace Aguilar | Bowles and her circle likened the young woman who enjoyed dancing and singing to Walter Scott
's Flora McIvor. |
| Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | |
| 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Lady Eleanor Butler | Among their many visitors (apart from the local gentry, with whom they duly established links), close friends included Anna Seward
, Henrietta Maria Bowdler
(who wrote mock-flirtatiously of LEB
as her veillard [sic] or old... |
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