Sir Walter Scott has long been acknowledged as the first writer of historical fiction, and when he chose Scotland as a setting, he generally produced his best work. He introduced this approach in his first novel, Waverley (1814), when he… Read More ›
Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering makes the most of coincidence and mistaken identity to shape an 18th-century Scottish adventure based on a Scottish ballad. Early in his career, Scott heard that a Galloway excise officer named Joseph Train had begun… Read More ›
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