Sir Walter Scott’s Quentin Durward was one of three novels Scott issued in 1823. The first edition was printed in 10,000 copies, the sheets carried in bales by steamship to London on May 16, 1823, where binders worked the night… Read More ›
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Analysis of Sir Walter Scott’s Kenilworth
In his novel Kenilworth, Sir Walter Scott tells his romanticized version of the death of Amy Robsart, wife to Robert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, favored by Queen Elizabeth I. Set in 1560, the novel seeks to, as Scott writes… Read More ›
Analysis of Sir Walter Scott’s Guy Mannering
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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