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The Journal of Sir Walter Scott is a diary which the novelist and poet Walter Scott kept between 1825 and 1832. It records the financial disaster which overtook him at the beginning of 1826, and the efforts he made over the next seven years to pay off his debts by writing bestselling books.
Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (1818), and The Bride of Lammermoor (1819), along with the narrative poems Marmion ...
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott. Edinburgh: Canongate Classics. ISBN 0862418283. Anonymous (19 December 2011). "Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft". The Walter Scott Digital Archive. Edinburgh University Library; Johnson, Edgar (1970). Sir Walter Scott: The Great Unknown. Volume II: 1821–1832. London: Hamish Hamilton.
Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott. By James Hogg, The Ettrick Shepherd was published in April 1834 at New York by Harper & Brothers. [5] The first half of the volume was devoted to 'Sketch of the Shepherd's Life' by S. De Witt Bloodgood.
The letters of Sir Walter Scott, the novelist and poet, range in date from September 1788, when he was aged 17, to June 1832, a few weeks before his death. [ 1 ] [ nb 1 ] About 7000 letters from Scott are known, and about 6500 letters addressed to him.
The Walter Scott Jr. Stock Index From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when Walter Scott Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a -5.6 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.
The "Memoirs" were never published in Scott's lifetime, [10] but after his death Scott's son-in-law J. G. Lockhart, according to his own claim, discovered the manuscript in an old cabinet at Abbotsford while writing the first volume of his Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart., and decided to publish the "Memoirs" as the first chapter of his own work ...
"Walter was a dear friend and I miss him every day," Pierre Fulton said in a statement through his lawyer issued late Monday Walter Scott's passenger, Pierre Fulton, breaks his silence Skip to ...