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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Education	Anne Manning	AM was taught at home by both her mother and her father, with the help of masters for special accomplishments, Oliphant, Margaret et al. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign. Hurst and Blackett. 211 and for a short time by a governess. Charlotte Yonge , who wrote of...
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...
Education	Emily Hickey	She demonstrated an early interest in reading. Scott , Tennyson , and Barrett Browning numbered among her early favourites. Her father, however, did not allow her to read Shakespeare , as he was repelled by...
Education	Mary Louisa Molesworth	Educated privately at home, MLM could not remember a time before she could read, nor any time when reading stories was not my greatest delight. Green, Roger Lancelyn. Mrs. Molesworth. Bodley Head. 21 She began formal learning with her mother. She read...
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	One of the poems MG had to learn for recitation was Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor (later Gilbert) . Gawthorpe, Mary. Up Hill to Holloway. Traversity Press. 47 (MG thought it was by the other sister, and later regretted that she never...
Education	Margaret Haig, Viscountess Rhondda	Taught by governesses until she was thirteen, Margaret Haig Thomas learned to read at about five. She was taught German and French, and she also learned Welsh as a child but did not retain it...
Education	Susan Tweedsmuir	She was, however, always reading as a child: she and her sister had few books, but knew by heart whole chapters of the ones they did have. As a child Susan hated Mrs Mortimer 's...
Education	Mary Gawthorpe	Apprenticeship included some part-time attendance at the Pupil-Teacher Centre in the LeedsSchool Board offices. There MG continued with largely the same subjects as at school, with the addition of French, educational theory, psychology, and...
Education	Matilda Betham-Edwards	Because of her mother's early death, MBE , she said later, was largely self-educated, her teachers being plenty of the best books. Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce. 124 Apart from the family library, a half-guinea annual subscription to the Ipswich Mechanics' Institution
Education	Doris Lessing	Before attending school and after she left, Doris educated herself by reading. Her parents possessed copies of the classics, like Scott , Dickens , and Kipling . She read widely in the nineteenth century—her favourites...
Education	Jean Rhys	At a very young age, JR imagined that God was a book. She was so slow to read that her parents were concerned, but then suddenly found herself able to read even the longer words...
Education	Marjorie Bowen	To educate herself further, she read widely, setting herself literary exercises, writing verse imitating or dramatising Chaucer , Spenser , and Browning . However, she writes that at that time, I had read no really...
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. After moving to England they continued their studies and attended the Higher Lectures for Women series begun by Henry Sidgwick
Education	Celia Moss	Little is known of CM 's education. Scholar Michael Galchinsky (who later wrote of her for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography) describes her family's household as secularizing . . . for their father...
Education	Freya Stark	Family friends sympathetic to Freya's feelings of entrapment at Dronero sent her gifts of books: she was especially passionate about Shakespeare , Sir Walter Scott , Byron , Keats , Kipling , Shelley , Wordsworth

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By 20 February 1908

K. L. Montgomery dedicated their historicalnovelColonel Kate to Sir Walter Scott .

1920

The number of Miners' Institutes (which included Miners' Libraries ) increased following the decision regularly to supplement the levy financing them from the national Miners' Welfare Fund .

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