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
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.Timeline
Texts
Barnard, Lady Anne. Auld Robin Gray. Editor Scott, Sir Walter, J. Ballantyne, 1825.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Dramatic Works of Goethe. Translators Swanwick, Anna and Sir Walter Scott, H. G. Bohn, 1851.
Grant, Douglas et al. “Introduction”. Private Letters of the Seventeenth Century, Clarendon Press, 1947, pp. 7-54.
Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe. A. Constable, 1820, 3 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Kenilworth. A. Constable, 1821, 3 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Marmion. A. Constable; W. Miller and J. Murray, 1808.
Scott, Sir Walter. Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies; Longman and Rees, 1803, 3 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. “Papers of Sir Walter Scott”. MSS 3278. 102, 3888.20, 3890. 89, 208, 261, National Library of Scotland, 1817.
Scott, Sir Walter et al. Private Letters of the Seventeenth Century. Clarendon, 1947.
Scott, Sir Walter. St. Ronan’s Well. A. Constable; Hurst, Robinson, 1824, 3 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of My Landlord. W. Blackwood and J. Murray, 1816, 4 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. R. Cadell, 1832, 4 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of My Landlord, Second Series. A. Constable, 1818, 4 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Tales of My Landlord, Third Series. A. Constable, 1819, 4 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Abbot. A. Constable, 1820, 3 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott. Editor Anderson, W. E. K., Clarendon, 1972.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Lady of the Lake. J. Ballantyne; Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and W. Miller, 1810.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Lay of the Last Minstrel. Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; A. Constable, 1805.
Scott, Sir Walter. The Letters of Sir Walter Scott. Editor Grierson, Sir Herbert John Clifford, Centenary Edition, Constable, 1937, 12 vols.
Seward, Anna. The Poetical Works of Anna Seward. Editor Scott, Sir Walter, J. Ballantyne, 1810, 3 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. A. Constable; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 3 vols.
Scott, Sir Walter. Waverley. Editor Lamont, Claire, Oxford University Press, 1986.