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.
Head-and-shoulders painting of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Henry Raeburn, 1822. Scott is wearing a black coat, high collar, and yellow waistcoat adorned with a heavy watch-chain. Scottish National Galleries, Edinborough.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships Charlotte Stopes
Her other grandfather, William Carmichael , was a solicitor, or Writer to the Signet. In this capacity he assisted and then succeeded Sir Walter Scott .
Maude, Aylmer. The Authorized Life of Marie C. Stopes. Williams and Norgate, 1924.
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Family and Intimate relationships Ellen Wood
EW 's father, Thomas Price , was a glove manufacturer. His grandson describes him as an unambitious and literary man, more fitted for a cathedral stall than the calling he had adopted,
Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. Third, R. Bentley and Son, 1895.
3
and as...
Family and Intimate relationships Margaret Calderwood
MC 's mother, born Anne Dalrymple and by marriage Lady Steuart, was one of the youngest of a large family, and described as witty and beautiful. She was a niece of Janet Dalrymple who was...
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Tytler
She and her Breton maid Marie were the only European women present during the siege of Delhi. When the time had come for women and children to leave, HT was too advanced in her pregnancy...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Plumptre
By contrast, the youngest sister, Jemima (baptised at Cambridge on 29 December 1769), who also became a novelist, seems to have lost contact with most of her family; not one of them appears on her...
Family and Intimate relationships Anne Grant
AG 's parents were married in 1753; they moved to Glasgow shortly afterwards.
Wilson, James Grant, and Anne Grant. “Preface, Memoir of Mrs. Grant”. Memoirs of an American Lady, edited by James Grant Wilson and James Grant Wilson, Books for Libraries Press, 1972, p. ix - xxxvi.
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Her mother, Catherine (Mackenzie) MacVicar , was a grand-daughter of the ancient family of Stewart, settled at Invernahyle in Argyllshire...
Family and Intimate relationships Susan Ferrier
The first important position of James Ferrier , SF 's father, was as Writer to the Signet. Later he was appointed Principal Clerk of Session and became estate manager to the Duke of Argyll ...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Trefusis
Following this initial encounter, the two formerly isolated girls bonded over shared interests in Scott , Baudelaire , Dumas , Rostand 's Cyrano de Bergerac, and their own pedigrees.
Glendinning, Victoria. Vita. Penguin, 1984.
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Souhami, Diana. Mrs. Keppel and Her Daughter. Flamingo, 1997.
72-3
Jullian, Philippe et al. Violet Trefusis: Life and Letters. Hamish Hamilton, 1976.
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Family and Intimate relationships George Eliot
One of her resources during his illness was reading to him from the works of Sir Walter Scott .
Ashton, Rosemary. George Eliot: A Life. Hamish Hamilton, 1996.
312
Family and Intimate relationships Mary Webb
MW 's mother, Sarah Alice Meredith , claimed relationship with Sir Walter Scott , whose surname was her birth name. She set great store by the idea of duty, but seems to have become withdrawn...
Family and Intimate relationships Caroline Scott
Her mother, Frances, Lady Douglas , had had a deeply unhappy childhood, since her own mother appeared to entertain for her nothing but dislike and contempt, and treated her in a way that appears to...
Family and Intimate relationships Lady Charlotte Bury
Her second marriage shocked her friends and family, including her children. Although Bury was a clergyman from a good family, he had no fortune and was fifteen years younger than she was. Scott called him...
Friends, Associates Grace Aguilar
Bowles and her circle likened the young woman who enjoyed dancing and singing to Walter Scott 's Flora McIvor.
Friends, Associates Jane Porter
The Porters' mother lived a busy social life on limited means, and JP kept up this tradition. Sir Walter Scott was an early friend.
Mudge, Bradford Keyes, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 116. Gale Research, 1992.
265
When she moved to London, JP included among her friends...
Friends, Associates Elizabeth Hamilton
While in Wales they visited Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby (the ladies of Llangollen) and in the Lakes they stayed with Elizabeth Smith and her family.
Benger, Elizabeth Ogilvy. Memoirs of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Hamilton. Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1818, 2 vols.
1: 152-4
Smith, Elizabeth, 1776 - 1806. Fragments, In Prose and Verse. Editor Bowdler, Henrietta Maria, Richard Cruttwell, 1811.
151
In Edinburgh in 1803...

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