Ashby de la Zouch Castle
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Ashby de la Zouch Castle is a ruined fortification in the town of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire, England. The castle was built by William, Lord Hastings, a favourite of Edward IV, after 1473, acco
The castle seen from the south-west, showing the Kitchen Tower (left) and the Great Tower (right)
Carved fireplace in the Great Hall, decorated with images of angels and shields
The Great Tower, slighted after the English Civil War
The castle and the sunken gardens
Ivanhoe
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Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott is a historical novel published in three volumes, in December 1819, as one of the Waverley novels. The Waverley novels are considered seminal to the genre of histori
Ashby de la Zouch Castle
…for many years, although they moved their main residence to Donington Hall. The castle became famous after it featured in Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe in 1819, and its owner, Francis Rawdon, opened the ruins to visitors. Restoration work was carried out over the course of the next century, but by 1932…
Title page of 1st edition (1820, but released in December 1819)
Ivanhoe on the Scott Monument, Edinburgh (sculpted by John Rhind)
Le Noir Faineant in the Hermit's Cell by J. Cooper, Sr. From an 1886 edition of Walter Scott's works
Rebecca and Brian de Bois-Guilbert by Leon Cogniet, 1828