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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, Scottish historical novelist and poet, 1870. Portrait of Scott author of Ivanhoe. Scotland
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Additional Reading

J.G. Lockhart, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, 7 vol. (1836–38), is a full, intimate, and fascinating biography by Scott’s son-in-law. Edwin Muir, Scott and Scotland (1936), is a very acute analysis of Scott’s relation to Scottish literature and of his use of the English and Scots languages. H.J.C. Grierson, Sir Walter Scott (1938, reissued 1973), criticizes and corrects Lockhart at various points. Donald Davie, The Heyday of Sir Walter Scott (1961, reprinted 1971), analyzes Scott’s debt to Maria Edgeworth and others and critically analyzes some of the novels. Edgar Johnson, Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown, 2 vol. (1970), is a very full and detailed biography with extensive critical commentary. David Brown, Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination (1979), makes a reevaluation of Scott as a historical novelist; and James Kerr, Fiction Against History: Scott as Storyteller (1989), also explores Scott’s use of history in his fiction. Also of interest is Harry E. Shaw (ed.), Critical Essays on Sir Walter Scott: The Waverley Novels (1996).

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Add new Web site: All Poetry - Sir Walter Scott. Nov 13, 2024
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Walter Scott. Sep 19, 2024
Anniversary information added. Sep 17, 2024
Anniversary information added. Aug 11, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Sir Walter Scott as Literary Critic. May 15, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 08, 2024
Add new Web site: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Sir Walter Scott. Dec 21, 2023
Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Sir Walter Scott. Sep 22, 2023
Add new Web site: Electric Scotland - Biography of Sir Walter Scott. Jul 13, 2023
Links added. May 05, 2023
Add new Web site: Scottish Poetry Library - Sir Walter Scott. Mar 18, 2023
Add new Web site: Historic UK - Sir Walter Scott. Apr 05, 2022
Top Questions updated. Aug 02, 2019
Add new Web site: Facts about Famous People - Biography of Sir Walter Scott. Feb 08, 2019
Changed article title from Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet to Sir Walter Scott. Nov 18, 2016
Add new Web site: None. Jun 09, 2014
Add new Web site: The University of Adelaide - Biography of Sir Walter Scott. May 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Undiscovered Scotland - Biography of Sir Walter Scott. May 02, 2014
Add new Web site: Olga's Gallery - Biography of Sir Walter Scott. Apr 20, 2012
Add new Web site: Spartacus Educational - Biography of Walter Scott. Apr 20, 2012
Add new Web site: The Victorian Web - Biography of Sir Walter Scott. Apr 20, 2012
Added photograph. Jan 18, 2012
Media added. Feb 26, 2009
Changed publication date of Rob Roy from 1818 to 1817. Feb 26, 2009
Article revised. Feb 01, 2002
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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