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Sir Walter Scott

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Sir Walter ScottScottish, 1771 - 1823

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Waverley, Old Mortality, The Heart of Mid-Lothian and The Bride of Lammermoor, and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion. He had a major impact on European and American literature.

As an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, he combined writing and editing with daily work as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire. He was prominent in Edinburgh's Tory establishment, active in the Highland Society, long a president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–1832), and a vice president of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1827–1829).[1] His knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre as an exemplar of European Romanticism. He became a baronet "of Abbotsford in the County of Roxburgh", Scotland, on 22 April 1820; the title became extinct on his son's death in 1847.

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The Abbot a Sequel
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1868
Object number: 96.4.20
Anne of Geierstein
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1868
Object number: 96.4.18
The Fortunes of Nigel
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1867
Object number: 96.4.23
The Heart of Midlothion
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1868
Object number: 96.4.24
Ivanhoe
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
Object number: 2003.6.7
Ivanhoe
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
Object number: 95.9.2
The Lady of the Lake
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
Object number: 86.196
The Lady of the Lake
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
Object number: 86.195
Old Morality
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1867
Object number: 96.4.19
Quentin Durward
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
Object number: 2003.6.4
St. Ronan's Well
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1868
Object number: 96.4.21
The Talisman: A The Tales Of The Crusaders
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1868
Object number: 96.4.22
Waverly or Tis Sixty Years Since
Object Name: Book
Sir Walter Scott
1868
Object number: 96.4.25