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	Eliza Haywood	The Monthly Review found the heroine of this book more interesting than Betsy Thoughtless (with better character-drawing but a continued deficiency in plot and sentiments. It conceded that the whole was doubtless much superior to...
Literary responses	Joanna Baillie	When Baillie re-read her own Witchcraft as a work in progress she wrote: I am inclined to think well of it. Renfrew witches upon a polite stage! Will such a thing ever be endorsed! qtd. in Witchcraft by Joanna Baillie. Finborough Theatre, 2008. The...
Literary responses	Anna Gordon	William Tytler was followed by many more in his interest in AG 's ballads. His son Alexander Fraser Tytler (Lord Woodhouselee) , Scott , Jamieson , Joseph Ritson , M. G. Monk Lewis , Robert Anderson
Literary responses	Maria Edgeworth	Walter Scott 's praise of ME 's admirable Irish portraits Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986. 341 in Waverley (July 1814) must have been useful publicity. Scott expanded his praise in his edition of 1829 Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986. 352-3
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	Harriette Wilson	Contemporary admirers of HW on literary grounds included Walter Scott , who praised her dialogue and intelligence, and thought her out and out qtd. in Thirkell, Angela. The Fortunes of Harriette. Hamish Hamilton, 1936. 218 a better writer than Teresia Constantia Phillips or others in the...
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 Setting	Catherine Gore	The title-page quotes and very slightly alters four lines from Pope beginning What gay ideas crowd the vacant brain, Gore, Catherine. Mothers and Daughters. Bentley, 1849. title-page but whereas Pope's imaginary Teresa Blount was daydreaming idly and innocently of the dukes and...
Material Conditions of Writing	Iris Murdoch	Though she was a contented only child, IM said that the impulse to create imaginary siblings was the thing that first inspired her to write. In her teens she was a leading contributor to the...
names	Christian Isobel Johnstone	BirthName: Christian Isobel Tod or Todd Perkins, Pamela. Women Writers and the Edinburgh Enlightenment. Rodopi, 2010. 209 Married: McLiesh or McLeish; Johnstone Pseudonyms: The Author of Clan-Albin; Aunt Jane; Margaret Dods She took this name from a novel by Sir Walter Scott .
names	Joanna Baillie	Walter Scott teased her about her taking up in her fifties the style of Mrs. (This had earlier been universal for older unmarried women, as a mark of respect; it was now becoming limited...
Occupation	Anne Bannerman	AB was instrumental in securing the papers of John Leyden (linguist, poet, and friend of Walter Scott , with whom she had had some kind of close relationship) for the use of James Morton ...
Occupation	Elizabeth Siddal	ES was preparing illustrations for ballads by William Allingham ; she also worked on engravings for texts by Wordsworth , Scott , Tennyson , and Browning . Marsh, Jan, and Pamela Gerrish Nunn. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. Virago, 1989. 66
Occupation	Barbara Pym	This work gave her considerable free time, most of which she spent reading such authors as Austen , Johnson , Scott , and Trollope . She particularly admired the forms of Mansfield 's published scrapbook...

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