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A Short Biography of Sir Walter Scott

Author Name:

Sir Walter Scott

Born As:

Walter Scott

Other Names:

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet

Born:

15 Aug 1771

Died:

21 Sep 1832




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Poet and novelist                          
Selected Works:

The Waverley Novels:

Waverley - 1814
Guy Mannering - 1815
The Antiquary - 1816
Rob Roy - 1818
Ivanhoe - 1819
Kenilworth - 1821
The Pirate - 1822
The Fortunes of Nigel - 1822
Peveril of the Peak - 1822
Quentin Durward - 1823
St. Ronan's Well - 1824
Redgauntlet - 1824
Tales of the Crusaders, consisting of The Betrothed and The Talisman - 1825
Woodstock - 1826
Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series, The Fair Maid of Perth - 1828
Anne of Geierstein - 1829

Tales of My Landlord:

1st series The Black Dwarf and Old Mortality - 1816
2nd series, The Heart of Midlothian - 1818
3rd series, The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose - 1819
4th series, Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous - 1832

Tales from Benedictine Sources:

The Abbot - 1820
The Monastery - 1820

Short stories:

Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st series - 1827. Collection of three short stories:
The Highland Widow, The Two Drovers and The Surgeon's Daughter.
The Keepsake Stories - 1828. Collection of three short stories:
My Aunt Margaret's Mirror, The Tapestried Chamber and Death Of The Laird's Jock.

Poems:

William and Helen, Two Ballads from the German - translator - 1796
The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border - 1802-1803
The Lay of the Last Minstrel - 1805
Ballads and Lyrical Pieces - 1806
Marmion - 1808
The Lady of the Lake - 1810
The Vision of Don Roderick - 1811
The Bridal of Triermain - 1813
Rokeby - 1813
The Field of Waterloo - 1815
The Lord of the Isles - 1815
Harold the Dauntless - 1817
Young Lochinvar
Bonnie Dundee - 1830

Other:

Sir Walter Scott's Study at Abbotsford
Introductory Essay to The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland - 1814-1817
The Chase - translator - 1796
Goetz of Berlichingen - translator - 1799
Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk - 1816
Provincial Antiquities of Scotland - 1819-1826
Lives of the Novelists - 1821-1824
Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and Drama Supplement to the 1815–24 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
Halidon Hill - 1822
The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther - 1826
The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte - 1827
Religious Discourses - 1828
Tales of a Grandfather, 1st series - 1828
History of Scotland, 2 vols. - 1829-1830
Tales of a Grandfather, 2nd series - 1829
The Doom of Devorgoil - 1830
Essays on Ballad Poetry - 1830
Tales of a Grandfather, 3rd series - 1830
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft - 1831
The Bishop of Tyre.