By the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch, whose ancestors were closely linked to Sir Walter Scott
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Walter Scott
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels (1814–1831), which were, for nearly a century, among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe. He is also known for his narrative poems Marmion (1808) and The Lady of the Lake (1810). He greatly influenced Eu…
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Born 15 August 1771 · Died 21 September 1832 · Q79025
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2008· 1 entry
1832: Bizarro – an unfinished novel (or novella) published posthumously in 2008
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1966· 1 entry
By a major thematic analysis covering most of the novels by Francis R
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1951· 1 entry
The science-fiction author Isaac Asimov wrote "Breeds There a Man
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1925· 1 entry
Scott's manuscripts, letters and papers were donated to the National Library of Scotland by the Advocates Library of the Faculty of Advocates
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1890· 2 entries
1826: The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther
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As The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
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1844· 1 entry
12 years after Scott's death, and dominates the south side of Princes Street
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1838· 1 entry
The monument features a large column topped by a statue of Scott
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1837· 1 entry
His son-in-law John Gibson Lockhart published his nine-volume Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, one of the two most influential literary biographies of the decade along with Thomas Moore's Life of Lord Byron
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1834· 1 entry
In memory of Sir Walter Scott
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1832· 3 entries
Died 1832-09-21.
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“O, what a tangled web we weave,When first we practise to deceive!”
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“Do you love LIFE? Then do not squander TIME for that is the stuff life is made of.”
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1827· 2 entries
Two volumes of the History of Scotland in 1829 and 1830, and four instalments of the series entitled Tales of a Grandfather – Being Stories Taken From Scottish History, written one per year over the period 1828–1831, amo
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Scott said he "was German-mad
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1826· 2 entries
There was outrage in Scotland at the attempt of Parliament to prevent the production of banknotes of less than five pounds
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The novels mostly appearing as "By the Author of Waverley" (or variants thereof) or as Tales of My Landlord
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1825· 1 entry
A British banking crisis resulted in the collapse of the Ballantyne printing business, of which Scott was the only partner with a financial interest
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1824· 1 entry
By the American painter Charles Robert Leslie, later engraved by M I Danforth in 1829
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1822· 1 entry
Was a pivotal event intended to inspire a view of his home country that accentuated the positive aspects of the past while allowing the age of quasi-medieval blood-letting to be put to rest, while envisioning a more usef
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1820· 2 entries
In a bold move, Scott shifted period and location for Ivanhoe (1820) to 12th-century England
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As "tall, well formed (except for one ankle and foot which made him walk lamely), neither fat nor thin, with forehead very high, nose short, upper lip long and face rather fleshy, complexion fresh and clear, eyes very bl
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1817· 1 entry
As part of the land purchases Scott bought the nearby mansion-house of Toftfield for his friend Adam Ferguson to live in along with his brothers and sisters and on which, at the ladies' request, he bestowed the name of H
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1813· 2 entries
Had been a desire to do for Scotland what had been done in the fiction of Maria Edgeworth, "whose Irish characters have gone so far to make the English familiar with the character of their gay and kind-hearted neighbours
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Scott was offered the position of Poet Laureate
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1812· 1 entry
And followed them up with his exotic oriental verse narratives
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1811· 1 entry
Bought Cartley Hole Farm, downstream on the Tweed nearer Melrose
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1810· 1 entry
Seems to have put it into his head to resume the narrative and have his hero Edward Waverley journey to Scotland
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1808· 1 entry
And set in 15th-century England, Queenhoo Hall was not a success due to its archaic language and excessive display of antiquarian information
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1806· 1 entry
And sat in the General Assembly for a time as representative elder of the burgh of Selkirk
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1805· 1 entry
Became partners in the printing business, and from then until the financial crash of 1826, Scott's works were routinely printed by the firm
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1804· 2 entries
Ended his use of the Lasswade cottage and leased the substantial house of Ashestiel, 6 miles (9
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The works of John Dryden (18 vols, 1808), and the works of Jonathan Swift (19 vols, 1814)
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1802· 1 entry
Containing 48 traditional ballads and two imitations apiece by Leyden and himself
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1801· 2 entries
The Scotts moved to a spacious three-storey house at 39 North Castle Street, which remained his Edinburgh base until 1826, when it was sold by the trustees appointed after his financial ruin
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Albeit only after the death of his father
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1800· 1 entry
Scott suggested that Ballantyne set up business in Edinburgh and provided a loan for him to make the transition in 1802
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1771· 1 entry
Born 1771-08-15.
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