Novel in Scotland
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The novel in Scotland includes all long prose fiction published in Scotland and by Scottish authors since the development of the literary format in the eighteenth century. The novel was soon a major e
Walter Scott, the outstanding novelist of the early nineteenth century. Portrait of Sir Walter Scott by Henry Raeburn, 1823
Tobias Smollett, often considered Scotland's first novelist
Illustration to 1893 edition of Waverley, by Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson one of the Scottish novelists to gain an international reputation in the late nineteenth century
Waverley (novel)
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Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since is a historical novel by Walter Scott. Scott was already famous as a poet, and chose to publish Waverley anonymously in 1814 as his first venture into prose fictio
Novel in Scotland
…of Elizabeth Hamilton, Mary Brunton and Christian Johnstone. The outstanding literary figure of the early nineteenth century was Walter Scott, whose Waverley is often called the first historical novel. He had a major worldwide influence. His success led to a publishing boom in Scotland. Major figures that…
First Edinburgh edition
Depicts Edward Waverley leaving his father's home of Waverley Honour on horseback (Waverley, ch. 2)
Steel engraving by C. Heath after a drawing by P. De Wint of a scene relating to Scott's novel Waverley. 1832. The University of Edinburgh Collections