series called The Female Picture Gallery with a series of character analyses based on the women in Scott's works. Victor Hugo, in his 1823 essay, Sir Walter Scott: Apropos of Quentin Durward, writes: Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed (1827) has similarities with Walter Scott's historic novel Ivanhoe, although evidently distinct. In Charles Baudelaire's La Fanfarlo (1847), poet Samuel Cramer says of Scott: In the novella, however, Cramer proves as deluded a romantic as any hero in one of Scott's novels. Jane Austen, in a letter to her nephew James Edward Austen on 16 December 1816, writes: In Jane Austen's Persuasion (1817) Anne Elliot and Captain James Benwick discuss the "richness of the present age" of poetry, and whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake is the more preferred work. Mary Shelley, while researching for her historical novel, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck (1830), wrote a letter to Walter Scott on 25 May 1829, asking him for information on any works or manuscripts he knew about Perkin Warbeck, she concludes the letter: In Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) St. John Rivers gives a copy of Marmion to Jane to provide her "evening solace" during her stay in her small lodging. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights was influenced by the novels of Walter Scott. In particular, according to Juliet Barker, Rob Roy (1817) had a significant influence on Brontë's novel, which, though "regarded as the archetypal Yorkshire novel ... owed as much, if not more, to Walter Scott's Border country". Rob Roy is set "in the wilds of Northumberland, among the uncouth and quarrelsome squirearchical Osbaldistones", while Cathy Earnshaw "has strong similarities with Diana Vernon, who is equally out of place among her boorish relations" (Barker p. 501). In Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) the narrator, Gilbert Markham, brings an elegantly bound copy of Marmion as a present to the independent "tenant of Wildfell Hall" (Helen Graham) whom he is courting, and is mortified when she insists on paying for it. In George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871), Mr. Trumbull remarks to Mary Garth: Thomas Hardy, in his 1888 essay, The Profitable Reading of Fiction, writes: The many other British novelists whom Scott influenced included Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Kingsley, and Robert Louis Stevenson. He also shaped children's writers like Charlotte Yonge and G. A. Henty. Nathaniel Hawthorne, in a letter to his sister Elizabeth on 31 October 1820, writes: Edgar Allan Poe,