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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 |
|---|---|---|
| Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | After this show, Siddal's illustration of Scott
's Clerk Saunders was part of an exhibition that toured the United States; beyond these two instances, her work was never exhibited in her lifetime. Charles Eliot Norton |
| Occupation | Caroline Scott | CS
became a painter and musician of some accomplishment. According to Lady Louisa Stuart
she called her drawings dark-coloured, [her] music touching, and [her] style pathetic. Stuart, Lady Louisa, and J. Steven Watson. Memoire of Frances, Lady Douglas. Editor Rubenstein, Jill, Scottish Academic Press, 1985. 100 |
| Occupation | Mary Bryan | Though literary historian Mary Waldron
says that MB
took on the running of the business herself, Waldron, Mary, and Isobel Grundy. Letter about Mary Bryan to Isobel Grundy. 2000. |
| 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
... |
| Author summary | Isabella Beeton | IB
was the author of the classic book of household management which became a standard reference work for generations following her death—probably, says critic Michael Mason
, less common only than the Bible, Shakespeare and... |
| Author summary | Christian Isobel Johnstone | CIJ
is remarkable both for her pioneering of the Scottish national tale (in the early nineteenth century, neck and neck with Sir Walter Scott
) and for her long-continuing career in journalism, as contributor and... |
| Author summary | Elizabeth Meeke | EM
, who was not correctly identified until 2013, was unusually prolific among novelists (twenty-six titles), children's writers, and translators of the Romantic period. (She also compiled an anthology for children.) She issued through the... |
| Publishing | Felicia Hemans | FH
's poems regularly appeared in periodicals, including The New Monthly Magazine from 1823. Publishing with Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine from 1827, she asked William Blackwood
to match her rate of more than a pound per... |
| Publishing | Margaret Holford | Margaret Holford the younger
sent some Lines Occasioned by Reading the Poetical Works of Walter Scott to this admired figure some years before the appearance of her own Scott-influenced poem, Wallace. Seward, Anna. Letters of Anna Seward. Editor Constable, Archibald, Vol. 6 vols. , A. Constable, 1811, 6 vols. 1: 252-3 |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | HM
published in Tait's Edinburgh MagazineThe Achievements of the Genius of Scott; a second article on the same topic appeared a month later. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols. 3: 492 |
| Publishing | Susan Ferrier | Temple Bar magazine printed SF
's Recollections of Sir Walter Scott
, unpublished in her lifetime. 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, 1990. |
| Publishing | Harriet Martineau | She had started it on her previous birthday, 12 June 1838. John Murray
had solicited a novel from her—which would have been the first his firm
had published since Scott
—only to reject it when... |
| Publishing | Anna Seward | AS
had been in some kind of publishing negotiation with Constable
of Edinburgh for several years. Archibald Constable
visited her in April 1807. After this he consulted John Murray
in London, who advised him against... |
| Reception | Felicia Hemans | FH
's circulation in her lifetime rivalled that of her most prominent male contemporaries. With sales of about 18,000 volumes, she outsold Coleridge
and Wordsworth
, if not Scott
and Byron
. She proved, as... |
| Reception | Emily Frederick Clark | From EFC
's letters to the Royal Literary Fund
it would seem that she entertained a very modest estimate of her own talents. Late in her career, for example, she calls her own works very... |
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