Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland.
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.
Connections
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Friends, Associates | Dorothea Primrose Campbell | |
Friends, Associates | Felicia Hemans | While in Scotland she met not only Scott
and Jeffrey
, she met in person her publisher William Blackwood
, writer Anne Grant
, critic John Wilson
, and sculptor Angus Fletcher
. Lawrence, Rose. The Last Autumn at a Favorite Residence, with Other Poems. G. and J. Robinson, etc. and John Murray. 347 Hughes, Harriet Browne Owen, and Felicia Hemans. “Memoir of Mrs. Hemans”. The Works of Mrs. Hemans, W. Blackwood, pp. 1-315. 201 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Eliza Bray | This brief marriage brought Anna Eliza a number of literary friendships: with Sir Walter Scott
, Amelia Opie
, Letitia Elizabeth Landon
, John Murray
, Robert Southey
, and later with Southey's second wife,... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Maria Porter | The young Walter Scott
was a neighbour of the Porters in Edinburgh and a childhood friend to AMP
and Jane. Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research. 265 Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. under Jane Porter |
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 Alexander, Macmillan, p. v - xxix. xxiii |
Friends, Associates | Anna Seward | |
Friends, Associates | Jane Porter | |
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 | 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. Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press. 130 |
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, pp. 237-96. 284 |
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 | 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 | Dorothy Wordsworth | DW
's correspondents included Maria Jane Jewsbury
and Mary Ann Lamb
. She was very close to Coleridge
, who settled at Greta Hall near Keswick to be near the Wordsworths at Grasmere in June... |
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... |
Health | Mary Bryan | MB
(now Bedingfield) sent an anguished appeal to Scott
for an actual gift of money—fifteen pounds—to enable her to see a London specialist about her sight. Ragaz, Sharon. “Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield”. Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text, No. 7. |
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