The 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 south-east Scotland, shortly before the Ac
Ravenswood and Lucy at the Mermaiden's Well by Charles Robert Leslie
Ravenswood encounters the apparition of Alice, illustrated by Henry Macbeth-Raeburn (1892)
The Bride of Lammermoor by William Powell Frith, 1852
Viscount Stair (1619–1695) whose daughter provided the model for Lucy Ashton
The Waverley novels are a long series of novels by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century, they were among the most popular and widely read novels in Europe.
The Bride of Lammermoor
…The 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 south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first edition), or shortly after the…
Illustration from The Graphic of Arthur Sullivan's operatic adaptation of Ivanhoe.
View from the Scott Monument of the Waverley Station roof, in Edinburgh, with Arthur's Seat in the background