Famous Scots Series
Scott's own 'autobiographic fragment,' printed in Lockhart's first volume, has made other accounts of his youth mostly superfluous, even to a day which persists in knowing better about everything and everybody than it or they knew about themselves. No one ever recorded his gen...
In the opening introduction to the collected edition of the novels, Scott has given a very full account of the genesis of _Waverley_. These introductions, written before the fin...
3. Chapter 3Although Scott was hard upon his thirty-fifth year when the _Lay_ appeared, and although he had already a considerable literary reputation in Edinburgh, and some in London, the...
7. Chapter 7It is natural--indeed the feeling is not merely easy of excuse, but entitled to respect--that 'the pity of it,' the sombre close of so brilliant a career as Scott's, should attr...
6. Chapter 6It has been mentioned that when Scott returned from Ireland, and before his misfortunes came upon him, he had already engaged in two works of magnitude, a new novel, _Woodstock_...
2. Chapter 2It is pretty universally known, and must have been perceived even from the foregoing summary, that Scott was by no means a very precocious writer. He takes rank, indeed, neither...
5. Chapter 5_Redgauntlet_, it has been said, was the last novel on the full scale before the downfall of Scott's prosperity. But before this he had begun _The Life of Napoleon_ and _Woodsto...
1. Chapter 1Scott's own 'autobiographic fragment,' printed in Lockhart's first volume, has made other accounts of his youth mostly superfluous, even to a day which persists in knowing bette...