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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Literary responses	Emily Lawless	The Literary World vividly likened experiencing this novel to reading the life of a past century by lightning flashes, and the half-blinded reader reads on and on and cannot stop or look away short of...
Literary responses	Anne Grant	The pension was granted following the petition of Sir Walter Scott (who had praised her writing at the end of Waverley), Perkins, Pamela. “Anne Grant and the Professionalization of Privacy”. Authorship, Commerce and the Public: Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850, edited by Emma Clery et al., Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 29-43. 32 Francis Jeffrey , Henry Mackenzie , and others. At first AG rejected...
Literary responses	Emma Robinson	The Athenæum (again in the person of Henry Chorley , again reviewing ER as a male author), said she was still improving. Despite the difficulties posed by handling such well-known material, in this novel the...
Literary responses	Charlotte Yonge	The Daisy Chain's popularity was long-lasting, though not so intense as that of The Heir of Redclyffe. Jane Austen 's nephew James Austen-Leigh compared it to the work of Austen and Scott ...
Literary responses	Felicia Hemans	Wordsworth in 1837 revised his existing Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg to include a stanza describing FH as that holy Spirit / Sweet as the spring, as ocean deep. Wordsworth, William. The Complete Poetical Works of Wordsworth. Editor George, Andrew J., Houghton Mifflin. 737 Although his...
Literary responses	Anna Seward	Scott confided to Joanna Baillie after AS 's death that he had developed a most unsentimental horror for her sentimental letters while he was receiving them. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 252 Of much comment after their publication, Lady Charlotte Bury
Literary responses	Mary Augusta Ward	Beatrice Webb called this novel the most useful bit of work that has been done for many a long day. You have managed to give the arguments for and against factory legislation and a fixed...
Literary responses	Mary Matilda Betham	Charles Lamb pronounced MMB 's poem (before publication) to be very delicately pretty as to sentiment, Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. while Charlotte Bedingfield felt it would considerably raise MMB 's literary fame. Betham, Ernest, editor. A House of Letters. Jarrold and Sons. 156 Allan Cunningham called it full...
Literary responses	Amelia Opie	This novel was an instantaneous success. Of the second edition the Critical Review (of May 1802) wrote: Seldom have we met with any combination of incidents, real or imaginary, which possessed more of the deeply...
Literary responses	Joanna Baillie	The Eclectic Magazine raised her confidence about her Scots songs by pronouncing that she was easily the equal in the genre of Scott or Campbell , and inferior only to Burns himself. Baillie, Joanna. “Introduction”. The Selected Poems of Joanna Baillie, 1762-1851, edited by Jennifer Breen, Manchester University Press, pp. 1-25. 13
Literary responses	Anne Marsh	Chorley 's Athenæum review is remarkable for two things: for the vehemence with which he praised the novel's plotting and the climactic scene of preparations for the wedding (which he quoted at length, only regretting...
Literary responses	Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan	The review in the Critical made nostalgic reference to pleasure in Morgan's The Wild Irish Girl, and continued: As a national writer, we cannot too much admire her sentiments; and, as a descriptive writer...
Literary responses	Lady Charlotte Bury	Assessments of LCB 's work during her lifetime varied wildly. Sir Walter Scott quoted her in print; Sydney Morgan respected her work; but to most people her social identity eclipsed her literary one. Her early...
Literary responses	Ann Taylor Gilbert	T he Critical, warming to the Taylors' work, said the authors of this little book had a better claim to the name of poet than many of higher pretensions. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 3d ser. 8 (1806) : 440
Literary responses	Joanna Baillie	The Critical Review assumed the author was male. It thought the versification monotonous but warmly praised both preface and plays. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall. 24 (1798): 1-22 Initial reaction from individuals (mostly favourable) concentrated on the puzzle of authorship...

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