WALTER SCOTT AND IVANHOE

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WALTER SCOTT AND IVANHOE

• By Villem Valgi

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Walter Scott

• Father of historical novel
• 15 Aug 1771 21 Sept 1832 (aged 61)
• Educated parents
• 11 siblings, 6 died in infancy
• Polio ? lame in the right leg
• At age 26 married Charlotte Carpenter
• Title of baronet

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Walter Scott

• Sent to live in grandparents farm at Sandyknowe
• At the age of 7 returned to Edinburgh
• Was able to walk, explore the surroundings
• Royal High School of Edinburgh in 1779-1783
• 6 months local Grammar School in Kent
• University of Edinburgh classics, later law
• Became lawyer

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Walter Scott

• Literary career began in 1796 (aged 25)
• Translated German ballads
• Narrative poems, historical action
• The Lay of the Last Minstrel 
• Marmion
• The Lady of the Lake
• German translations set to music by Franz Schubert

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Walter Scott

• Surpassed by Byron and other poets ? became
  novelist
• Waverlay in 1814, successful
• 25 novels
• Rob Roy
• The Bride of Lammermoor
• Ivanhoe
• Anonymous , nickname Jebediah Cleisbotham or as
  Author of Waverlay

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Walter Scott

• 1825 his printing company nearly collapsed
• 1826 wife died
• 1827 aknowlidged authorship of novels
• 1832 died, buried beside ancestors

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Ivanhoe

• Printed in 1819
• Most famous
• In 12th century (1194)
• Reign of Richard I
• Third crusade
• Normans vs Anglo-Saxons
• King is good
• Co-operation of classes
• Robin Hood and merry men

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