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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Literary responses | Christian Isobel Johnstone | Scott
gave this novel qualified praise. He seemed to see it in the light of a legitimate competitor but not a serious rival. Read Elizth. de Bruce—it is very clever but does not show... |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The Athenæum gave this almost a full-page review (far more than it had yet accorded any of the Illustrations). It compared HM
's work in detail with that of Sir Walter Scott
and more... |
| Literary responses | Felicia Hemans | Appreciation of FH
was slowly growing. Following on the positive responses from Scott
and Byron
, in October 1820John Taylor Coleridge
in the influential Quarterly Review (published by John Murray
, her own publisher)... |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | The Horatian odes received in London literary circles such warm approbation that the poet could not listen with undelighted ears. qtd. in Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 145 |
| Literary responses | Jane Austen | Sir Walter Scott
recorded in his journal on 14 March 1826 a judgement which has become famous: read again, and for the third time at least, Miss Austen's very finely written novel of Pride and... |
| Literary responses | Jane West | Unlike JW
's two previous works, this one was reviewed in the Quarterly Magazine and elsewhere. Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 373 |
| Literary responses | Harriet Martineau | The overall reception of this novel was better than that of Deerbrook, although the nobility of the hero was felt to be exaggerated. Roberts, Caroline. The Woman and the Hour: Harriet Martineau and Victorian Ideologies. University of Toronto Press, 2002. 76-7 |
| Literary responses | Susan Ferrier | |
| Literary responses | Jane Austen | Emma received eight reviews in English: more than any other Austen novel. Murray
sounded apologetic as he invited Walter Scott to review it (It wants incident and romance does it not?). qtd. in Tomalin, Claire. Jane Austen: A Life. Penguin Viking, 1997. 252 |
| Literary responses | Anne Bannerman | The notice in the Critical Review was uncomplimentary, dismissing her as an imitator of Scott
, John Leyden
, and William Wordsworth
. Critical Review. W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 5 series. 38 (1803): 110ff Elfenbein, Andrew. Romantic Genius: The Prehistory of a Homosexual Role. Columbia University Press, 1999. 143 |
| Literary responses | Susan Ferrier | Again SF
met with success on balance. The Athenæum, however, naming Miss Ferriar as author, stated that the success of Marriage, backed by the good-natured commendation of Sir Walter Scott
, induced the... |
| Literary responses | Anna Seward | Scott
in his introduction gave a vivid description of AS
's good looks (even in old age), especially the poetical attributes of dark, flashing eyes and a melodious voice. Ashmun, Margaret. The Singing Swan. Yale University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1931. 253-4 |
| Literary responses | Susanna Centlivre | From this plot Frances Burney
borrowed the four guardians of her heroine in Cecilia. Walter Scott
thought the plot was extravagant enough (when the play was a hundred and ten years old) yet that... |
| Literary responses | Jemima Tautphoeus | The novel was very popular in both England and Bavaria. The general view was that there is no novel . . . in which the epithet charming could be applied with more strict propriety... |
| 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... |
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