The Waverley Novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832). For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read...
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to publish Waverley anonymously in 1814 as his first venture into prose fiction. It is often regarded as one of the first historical novels in the Western...
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Walter Scott (section Novels)
classics of European and Scottish literature, notably the novels Ivanhoe (1819), Rob Roy (1817), Waverley (1814), Old Mortality (1816), The Heart of Mid-Lothian...
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Look up Waverley in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Waverley may refer to: Waverley (novel), by Sir Walter Scott Waverley Overture, a work by Hector Berlioz...
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Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the second Jacobite rising,...
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The Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott appeared in thirty volumes between 1993 and 2012. Published by Edinburgh University Press...
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Waverley novels. Red Gauntlet (1855–1876) Redgauntlet is one of the Waverley novels. Rob Roy (1855–1872) Rob Roy is the title of one of the Waverley novels...
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The Talisman is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Published in 1825 as the second of his Tales of the Crusaders, it is set during the Third...
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Kenilworth. A Romance is a historical romance novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels, first published on 13 January 1821. Set in 1575,...
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Ivanhoe (redirect from Ivanhoe (novel))
(/ˈaɪvənˌhoʊ/) by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. It marked a shift away from Scott's...
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collective name "Waverley", after the Waverley Novels by Sir Walter Scott, was used for the three from around 1854 when the through "Waverley" route to Carlisle...
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opened in 1862. The line was nicknamed after the immensely popular Waverley Novels, written by Sir Walter Scott. The line was closed in 1969, as a result...
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2021). Novels portal Bengali novels Chain novel Children's literature; Young adult fiction Collage novel Gay literature Graphic novel Light novel Nautical...
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building on Princes Street and near Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station, which is named after Scott's Waverley novels. The tower is 200 feet 6 inches (61.11 m)...
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The Heart of Midlothian (category Waverley Novels)
The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the...
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Jacksonville Micropolitan Statistical Area. The town was named after the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott. Waverly is in southeastern Morgan County, 26 miles...
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The Bride of Lammermoor (category Waverley Novels)
Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of...
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3 (17): 367. Retrieved 29 October 2022. Scott, Walter (1896). The Waverley Novels: Rob Roy. London: Adam & Charles Black. p. 211. Rogers, James T (1985)...
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The Antiquary (category Waverley Novels)
The Antiquary (1816), the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist...
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time, Brodie was making statues of characters from Walter Scott's Waverley novels for the Scott Monument in Princes Street. The statue is mounted on...
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Gothic fiction (redirect from Gothic novels)
Grady (1957). "Scott's Refinement of The Gothic In Certain of The Waverley Novels" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 21 May 2022. Retrieved...
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Swabians and Saxons. Lichtenstein, modelled after the Waverley Novels, was a direct protest against the novel with a foreign historical background, and was an...
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One of the Waverley Novels by Walter Scott, The Black Dwarf was part of his Tales of My Landlord, 1st series (1816). It is set in 1708, in the Scottish...
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Guy Mannering (category Waverley Novels)
Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer is the second of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, published anonymously in 1815. According to an introduction that...
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Scott frequently used epigraphs in his historical novels, including throughout his Waverley novels. The long quotation from Dante's Inferno that prefaces...
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River. Waverley was first settled by Charles Pillsbury Allen who established a chair factory in the area. Waverley was named after the Waverley novels by...
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Burns, whom many consider the national poet, and Walter Scott, whose Waverley Novels did much to define Scottish identity in the 19th century. Towards the...
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The Betrothed (1825) is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. Set in the Welsh Marches in the 12th century it is the first of two Tales of the...
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Scott established the genre of the historical novel with his series of Waverley Novels, including Waverley (1814), The Antiquary (1816), and The Heart of...
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Magazine. In 1816 Walter Scott used the story in the third of his Waverley Novels, The Antiquary (volume 2, chapter 1). This pet of Newton's was also...
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