'No Scotchman of his time was more entirely Scottish than Walter Scott.' Thomas Carlyle
Born in Edinburgh, Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) spent some of his childhood in the Scottish Borders, before being educated at Edinburgh High School and Edinburgh University, where he studied law. In 1799 he was appointed Sherriff-Depute for Selkirkshire, where he settled. He first wrote immensely popular long romantic historical poems such as Marmion (1808) and Lady of the Lake (1810), then turned to historical fiction. Works such as Waverley, (1814), Rob Roy, (1818) The Heart of Midlothian,(1818), and Redgauntlet (1824), created a vogue for Scottish history and created a romantic vision of Scotland and Scottishness.
Wholly absorbing throughout ... It slips down with effortless ease
...
I have rarely enjoyed making any new acquaintance as much as I
have
enjoyed meeting Sir Walter Scott in his own words.
* * The Observer * *
Scott's Journal is a hugely important piece of Scottish, and indeed
European literature, published here with an incisive introduction,
brilliantly judicious annotation and appendices and an excellent
index. . . Walter Scott has never been so readable.
* * The Herald * *
Truly a classic. It has no slow beginning, no laborious diversions
and, though we know from the start what the outcome will be , it is
compelling right to the very last unfinished sentence.
* * Scotland on Sunday * *
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