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Sir Walter Scott wrote into existence many of the myths and legends we still re-tell and he used this past to examine and explore the political problems of his own day. Waverley' appeared in 1814 ...

Sir Walter Scott: £1m project to shed new light on ... but the book was marketed as "written by the author of the Waverley novels". Rob Roy sold out. As one of Sir Walter's most popular novels ...

Novels and epic poems by Sir Walter Scott were hugely popular throughout ... During his lifetime, novels such as Waverley, Rob Roy and The Bride of Lammermoor helped forge Scotland as an early ...

A white marble bust of eminent novelist Sir Walter Scott was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey in 1897 by the Duke of Buccleuch. It was the gift of a group of Scott's admirers and is a copy ...

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a novelist ... a nod to Sir Walter’s most famous work, Waverley, or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since. The prize is managed by the Abbotsford Trust.