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76 unusual facts about Walter Scott


Abbotsford Ferry railway station

The station was near Abbotsford House, formerly the residence of historical novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott.

Alexander Bestuzhev

The works of Bestuzhev may be classified as the florid Romanticism in the vein of Lord Byron, Hugo or Walter Scott.

Alexandre Herculano

Herculano introduced the historical novel into Portugal in 1844 by a book written in imitation of Walter Scott.

Amadeu Vives i Roig

Before turning to zarzuela, Vives wrote a successful Catalan-language stage play, Jo no sabia que el món era així ("I didn't know the world was like this", 1929) and an ambitious four-act opera Artús (1897, Barcelona) based on Sir Walter Scott.

Andrey Krayevsky

In the mid-1840s he endeavored upon publishing all the translations of Sir Walter Scott's novels in the Russian language (1845–46); this project remained unfinished.

Applied Research in Patacriticism

It is so named because Sir Walter Scott's novel, Ivanhoe, was used as the source text for the very first IVANHOE game.

Benjamin Perley Poore

When he was eleven years old he was taken by his father to England, where saw Walter Scott, Lafayette, and other notables.

Christian Church

Prior to that they had been reported in the religious census as part of the movement that had its roots in the several independent movements that occurred through the leadership of people such as Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell, Walter Scott, and Barton W. Stone.

Clare Benedict

The collection also includes photographs and autographs: an envelope addressed by Queen Victoria to the Queen of Belgium, letters by James Fenimore Cooper, Walter Scott, and Henry James.

Conisbrough

In Sir Walter Scott's novel, Ivanhoe, 'Coningsburgh Castle' is based on Conisbrough.

DeCoursey Fales

Fales' manuscript collecting started with Walter Scott materials, and around that core, his collection grew to around 50,000 items pertaining to various authors spanning the 18th and 20th centuries.

Désiré-Alexandre Batton

It was after winning the prize and when he became associated with Gioachino Rossini that it is believed he introduced the composer to the romantic poem by Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake, which became the basis of the romantic opera, La donna del lago.

Devil's Beef Tub

In his novel Redgauntlet, novelist Walter Scott said, "It looks as if four hills were laying their heads together, to shut out daylight from the dark hollow space between them. A damned deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole it is".

Edinburgh Waverley railway station

The collective name "Waverley", after the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott, was used for the three from around 1854 when the through 'Waverley' route to Carlisle opened.

Faddey Bulgarin

Inspired by Sir Walter Scott, Bulgarin wrote the Vyzhigin series of historical novels, which used to be popular in Russia and abroad.

Federico Ricci

Although he did not have his brother's energy, Federico's scores are judged by some to be more skilfully written than Luigi's: for example, it has been said that La prigione di Edimburgo shows a sensitivity towards its subject (from Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian) that is rare among Italian operas of the period.

Froissart's Chronicles

Sir Walter Scott once remarked that Froissart had "marvelous little sympathy" for the "villain churls."

Garrett Park, Maryland

Copp even went so far as to name the streets after locations in the novels of the English author Walter Scott, such as Kenilworth and Strathmore.

Gervais de La Rue

His first historical enterprise was interrupted by the French Revolution, which forced him to take refuge in England, where he took the opportunity of examining a vast mass of original documents in the Tower of London and elsewhere, and received much encouragement, from Sir Walter Scott among others.

Giovanni Fattori

At that time, however, his energies were directed less toward the study of art than to reading the historical novels (especially those with medieval themes) of such authors as Ugo Foscolo, Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi and Walter Scott.

Henry William Weber

He was "afflicted with partial insanity," especially under the influence of strong drinks, to which he was occasionally addicted (Scott, Journal, 1890, i. 149).

Henry William Weber (1783–1818) was an English editor of plays and romances and literary assistant of Sir Walter Scott.

History of marriage in Great Britain and Ireland

This report had been taken at face value throughout the 19th century, and was perpetuated in Walter Scott's 1820 novel The Monastery.

History painting

Especially in the early 19th century, much historical painting depicted specific moments from historical literature, with the novels of Sir Walter Scott a particular favourite, in France and other European countries as much as Great Britain.

Ivanhoe College

The school was established in 1954 and named after the historical novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, part of which was set at Ashby de la Zouch Castle.

Ivanhoe Girls' Grammar School

Students are divided into six houses, named after characters and places in Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.

Joaquín Cuadras

One of his most important commissions was a series of eight panel pictures illustrating Sir Walter Scott's The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

John Balfour, 3rd Lord Balfour of Burleigh

On Sir Walter Scott must be laid the blame — if blame it be — by having appropriated the name and designation in his 'John Balfour of Burley' in Old Mortality.

John Leyden

Through Anderson also he came to know Richard Heber, by whom he came to the notice of Sir Walter Scott, who was then collecting materials for his Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (1802).

John of Hazelgreen

The Jock O'Hazeldean variant was published by Sir Walter Scott.

Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz

His novel, John of Tenczyn (1825), written in the style of Sir Walter Scott, gives a vigorous picture of old Poland.

Julian, Count of Ceuta

The British writers Sir Walter Scott, Walter Savage Landor, and Robert Southey handle the legends associated with these events poetically: Scott in "The Vision of Don Roderick" (1811), Landor in his tragedy Count Julian (1812), and Southey in Roderick, the Last of the Goths (1814).

Katharine Jaffray

This is similar to the Lochinvar tale included in Sir Walter Scott's Marmion; indeed, in one variant, the hero is named Lochinvar.

Kenilworth, Queensland

At the time Mrs Smith was reading Sir Walter Scott's novel "Kenilworth" and she decided to name the property after the novel.

Ladies of Llangollen

Their house became a haven for visitors, mostly writers such as Robert Southey, William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott, but also the military leader the Duke of Wellington and the industrialist Josiah Wedgwood; aristocratic novelist Caroline Lamb, who was born a Ponsonby, came to visit too.

Ledbury Park

Developer H.A. Clark named a number of the new streets, such as Marmion, Deloraine, Melrose,and Falkirk after the works of Sir Walter Scott.

Louis de Bourbon, Bishop of Liège

The murder of Louis occurs in the novel Quentin Durward by Sir Walter Scott; but the historical details are far from accurate.

Lucy Lloyd

The ship ran aground on a reef near Cape Agulhas and, although the passengers and crew were rescued, Lucy lost most of her possessions and wedding gifts, managing to retrieve only a pair of vases for her sister (which she carried on her lap in the lifeboat) and a set of Sir Walter Scott's novels that had washed ashore in good condition as they were wrapped in waterproof packaging.

Malagrowther

Sir Mungo Malagrowther is a fictional character in Walter Scott's 1822 The Fortunes of Nigel.

Metahistorical romance

Metahistorical Romance is a term describing postmodern historical fiction, defined by Amy J. Elias in Sublime Desire: History and Post-1960s Fiction. Elias defines metahistorical romance as a form of historical fiction continuing the legacy of historical romance inaugurated by Sir Walter Scott but also having ties to contemporary postmodern historiography.

Midlothian, Illinois

They came "way out to the country" (147th Street) and found a piece of property with rolling hills that reminded them of the Midlothian described in Sir Walter Scott's book The Heart of Midlothian.

Miss Ravenel's Conversion from Secession to Loyalty

In contrast to much of the Civil War fiction that had gone before it, Miss Ravenel's Conversion portrayed war not in the chivalric, idealized manner of Walter Scott, but as a bloody and inglorious hell.

Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad

Popular legend has it that Otelia and William Mahone traveled along the newly completed railroad naming stations from Ivanhoe, a book she was reading by Sir Walter Scott.

PS Jeanie Deans

She took the name of an earlier fleet member, continuing the tradition of the North British Railway naming their vessels after characters from Sir Walter Scott's novels.

Rafael Obligado Castle

Obligado wished to evoke the settings described in the works of Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott (a favorite of his wife, Isabel Gómez Langenheim).

Ravenswood, West Virginia

The second story says that Henrietta Fitzhugh, wife of one of the town founders, Henry Fitzhugh, named the town after the hero in Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor (1819).

Rob Roy, Indiana

The town of Rob Roy was named after the Scottish patriot Robert Roy MacGregor by local John I. Foster, a lover of literature who was especially fond of Walter Scott's novels.

Robsart, New Mexico

Robsart may have been named by the Southern Pacific Railway after Amy Robsart from the Sir Walter Scott book Kenilworth, as Robsart, Saskatchewan received its name from the Canadian Pacific Railway.

Rokeby Venus

Another attitude to the issue was shown by Morritt, who wrote to Sir Walter Scott of his "fine painting of Venus' backside", which he hung above his main fireplace, so that "the ladies may avert their downcast eyes without difficulty and connoisseurs steal a glance without drawing the said posterior into the company".

Rokeby, Ontario

They would certainly have been familiar with the epic poem Rokeby, by Sir Walter Scott, which was written, and set, in that locality.

Ronald Township, Michigan

(This may have been Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem Lord of the Isles, in which the protagonist is named Ronald.)

Rosemary Rogers

She began writing at age eight, and throughout her teens penned many romantic epics in the style of her favorite writers, Sir Walter Scott, Alexandre Dumas, père, and Rafael Sabatini.

Roswall and Lillian

Sir Walter Scott recounted that within living memory of his time, an old person wandered Edinburgh, singing Roswall and Lillian.

Rowena, Oregon

It is also possible that the name comes indirectly from Rowena, Ivanhoe's lover in the novel of the same name by Sir Walter Scott.

Samuel Cole Williams

His personal library was fashioned after the design of Sir Walter Scott's study at Abbotsford House.

Scott-Elliot

Walter Scott-Elliot (1895-1977), a British company director and politician

Simon Hawke

For example, in the first book in the series time travellers contesting the fate of Richard I of England become caught up in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe.

St. Mark's College, Monte Grande

The high school features three houses which are named in honour of Wilkie Collins, Sir Walter Scott and John Milton.

Swashbuckler

Victorian-era authors of historical romances such as Walter Scott and Alexandre Dumas saw the art of rapier fencing as the origin of contemporary thrust-oriented small-sword fencing, and dismissed the earlier swords as heavy and fencing systems of earlier periods as inferior, slower and relying on cleaving blows and brute strength.

Sweet William's Ghost

Sir Walter Scott claimed to have been told a similar story by a woman in Shetland, and based his poem Advertisement to the Pirate upon it.

Tambo Crossing, Victoria

As an indication of the Scottish background of many of the early settlers in the region, the hotel was renamed the Sir Walter Scott Hotel in the late 1860s.

Telemaco Signorini

The following year he exhibited for the first time, showing paintings inspired by the works of Walter Scott and Machiavelli at the Florentine Promotrice.

The Last Day of Pompeii

Another British author, Sir Walter Scott declared that it was not an ordinary painting but an epic in colours.

Théâtre Lyrique

The alterations to Weber's opera were both textual and musical and involved a change in setting from Bohemia during the Thirty Years War to ostensibly Yorkshire during the reign of Charles I, although Sir Walter Scott's novels may also have been an influence, since Scotland is also mentioned.

Thomas Osbert Mordaunt

For many years, the poem was incorrectly attributed to Mordaunt's contemporary, Sir Walter Scott.

Tsubouchi Shōyō

Besides Shakespeare, he also translated a number of other works from English into Japanese, including Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor and Bulwer-Lytton's novel Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes.

Walter Scott, 1st Lord Scott of Buccleuch

# Margaret Scott (died 5 October 1651) married first James Ross, 6th Lord Ross; married second Sir Alexander Seton of Foulstruther, later Montgomerie, 6th Earl of Eglinton

# Elizabeth Scott who married (contract dated 22 November 1616) John Cranstoun, later 2nd Lord Cranstoun

Walter Scott, 4th Baron of Buccleuch

By way of retaliation the English, under the Earl of Sussex and Lord Scrope, destroyed his stronghold at Branxholme Castle.

Walter Scott, Earl of Tarras

Born Walter Scott of Highchesters, he married his kinswoman Mary Scott, 3rd Countess of Buccleuch, daughter of Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch and Lady Margaret Leslie, on 9 February 1659 in Wemyss, Fife.

Waverly Place

The street was named after Sir Walter Scott's novel Waverley in 1833; prior to that it was called Art Street.

Waverly Township, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania

In 1853, it was established as a borough within Pennsylvania; since there was another municipality named Abington located near Philadelphia, the town was renamed Waverly after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley (novel), popular at that time.

Waverly, Pennsylvania

In 1853, it was established as a borough within Pennsylvania; since there already was a borough named "Abington" located near Philadelphia, the town was renamed Waverly after Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels, popular at that time.

Wharncliffe Crags

The legend was mentioned by Sir Walter Scott in the opening chapter of Ivanhoe: "Here haunted of yore the fabulous Dragon of Wantley".

William John Fitzpatrick

It was a weak attempt to foster a charge of unacknowledged plagiarism on Sir Walter Scott, and to claim for the novelist's brother, Thomas Scott, the chief credit for a large part of the famous Waverley series; but after four letters had appeared, the editor declined to publish any more.

Zachris Topelius

, treated in the manner of Sir Walter Scott; the five volumes of this work appeared at intervals between 1853 and 1867.


1811 in literature

Walter Scott buys the farm at Abbotsford in Scotland and commences building his future residence, Abbotsford House.

Antoni Edward Odyniec

In 1831 Odyniec settled in Dresden, in Saxony, where he translated works by Walter Scott, Byron and Thomas Moore, co-edited a "Library of Polish Classics," and wrote for Przyjaciel Ludu (The Friend of the People), published in Leszno.

Arthur's Seat

It became known as the Radical Road after it was paved in the aftermath of the Radical War of 1820, using the labour of unemployed weavers from the west of Scotland at the suggestion of Walter Scott as a form of work relief.

Bonnie Dundee

Bonnie Dundee is the of title of a poem and a song written by Walter Scott in 1825 in honour of John Graham, 7th Laird of Claverhouse, who was created 1st Viscount Dundee in November 1688, then in 1689 led a Jacobite rising in which he died, becoming a Jacobite hero.

Breeds There a Man...?

The title is taken from the phrase "Breathes there a man..." in Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lay of the Last Minstrel".

Charles Heath

Charles Heath established his own literary annual, The Keepsake, in 1827, and tried to persuade Sir Walter Scott to become its editor.

Cockburnspath

Nearby Fast Castle was a fictional setting for Walter Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermuir, which in turn inspired Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermuir.

Ethie Castle

The castle is reputed to be the basis for the fictional Castle of Knockwhinnock in Sir Walter Scott's novel The Antiquary.

Francis Lathom

But Lathom was not only a Gothic novelist: about half his works are works of contemporary satire or attempts at fiction in the mode of Walter Scott.

Hospitalfield House

Walter Scott stayed in the house in 1803 and 1809 and used it as his model for 'Monksbarns' in his novel The Antiquary (1816).

James Hope-Scott

In 1847 he married Charlotte Harriet Jane Lockhart, daughter of John Gibson Lockhart and granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and, on her coming into possession of Abbotsford House six years later, he assumed the surname of Hope-Scott.

James Wilde, 1st Baron Penzance

produce a further 14 roses named after characters in the novels of Sir Walter Scott, including the Jeanie Deans Hybrid Rose.

Lady Margaret Sackville

In 1922 she published "A Masque of Edinburgh." This was performed at the Music Hall, George Street, Edinburgh, and depicted the history of Edinburgh in eleven scenes from the Romans to a meeting between the poet Robert Burns and the writer Sir Walter Scott.

Robert Michels

Translated as Sexual Ethics: A Study of Borderland Questions (Walter Scott, George Allen & Unwin, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914); republished with a new introduction by Terry R. Kandal (Transaction Publishers, 2001-2, ISBN 0-7658-0743-2)

Sciennes

Nearby is the remaining part of Sciennes Hill House, once the home of Adam Ferguson, who hosted a dinner there where Robert Burns and the young Walter Scott met for the one and only time in the winter of 1786-87.

St Patrick's Isle

It is connected to the town of Peel on the Isle of Man by a causeway over Fenella Beach, named after the character in Sir Walter Scott's Peveril of the Peak.

Taghairm

Scottish historical novelist Sir Walter Scott scornfully described the last method in a footnote to his influential poem Lady of the Lake.

Tales from Benedictine Sources

Tales from Benedictine Sources (1820) is a pair of novels by Walter Scott consisting of The Abbot and The Monastery.

The Queen of Golconda

The work is the culmination of a project Berwald commenced in 1863 as Lochleven Castle, (based on The Abbot by Walter Scott).

William Brockie

Whilst serving his articles he frequently had the delight of meeting Sir Walter Scott, and many of the local characters who appeared in the Waverley Novels, in addition to Sir David Brewster, then living at Gattonside, James Hogg, better known as "The Ettrick Shepherd", and many other of Scott's personal friends.