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Sir Walter Scott was from childhood fascinated by the history and culture of his native Scotland.

Sir Walter Scott was from childhood fascinated by the history and culture of his native Scotland. Many of Scott’s Waverley Novels are set in historical Scotland and insightfully portray the customs and attitudes of Scottish society. In addition to the time he spent writing, Sir Walter Scott held a variety of occupations during his lifetime. He was appointed sheriff depute to the county of Selkirk in 1799 and was also a partner in a printing firm owned by the Ballantyne brothers. This partnership led to financial disaster later in his life.

Start by marking Sir Walter Scott and his World as Want to Read . David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture

Start by marking Sir Walter Scott and his World as Want to Read: Want to Read savin. ant to Read. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture. He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background - the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of Worl David Daiches was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer.

Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical poet, novelist and playwright. His father was a lawyer and his mother was the daughter of a physician. When he was two, he suffered from polio which left him lame

Sir Walter Scott was a Scottish historical poet, novelist and playwright. Check out this biography to know about his childhood, life, achievements, works & timeline. When he was two, he suffered from polio which left him lame. Young Scott spent much of his growing up years in Sandyknowe with his paternal grandparents. He was a voracious reader, reading almost everything he laid his hands on, right from history and drama to fairy tales and romance. In 1778, he returned to Edinburgh.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, Old Mortality, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

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Sir Walter Scott was born on 15 August 1771, in a small third floor flat in College Wynd in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Scott was the ninth child of Anne Rutherford and Walter Scott, a solicitor and member of the private Scottish society known as the Writers of the Signet, so called for their entitlement to use the Scottish King’s seal – known as the signet – when drawing up legal documents

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Sir Walter Scott, Scotland's premier novelist - his life and work. Part of British Biograhy at Britain Express. His father, also called Walter, was a solicitor. An early childhood illness left Scott lame in his right leg. He was educated at Edinburgh High School and studied law at Edinburgh University. Young Walter apprenticed to his father in 1786, and became a solicitor in 1792. It was his second work which made his name, however; The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805) was an immensely successful poem.

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright .

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet, popular throughout much of the world in the 19th century.

Sir Walter Scott Biography. Bookmark this page Manage My Reading List. His first novel, Waverly, was published anonymously. Although Scott probably never intended that "Laurence Templeton" should be taken as a real person, he was attempting to remain in anonymity by the use of the name. Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, August 15, 1771. His publishers persuaded him to allow further novels to be designated as "by the author of Waverly," and for this reason some of his novels were called the "Waverly Novels.

David Daiches, in his 1951 essay Scott’s Achievement as a Novelist, rejected the notion of Scott as an. .Scott thus lets his important figures grow out of the being of the age, he never explains the age from the position of its great representative.

David Daiches, in his 1951 essay Scott’s Achievement as a Novelist, rejected the notion of Scott as an ultra-romantic figure. Instead, he argued, Scott’s best and characteristic novels are a very different matter. They might with justice be called ‘antiromantic’ fictio.For the being of the age can only appear as a broad and many-sided picture if the everyday life of the people, the joys and sorrows, crises and confusions of average human beings are portrayed.