Waverley novels
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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.
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
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
Waverley novels
…1736 Tales of My Landlord, 3rd series: The Bride of Lammermoor 1819 East Lothian (Scotland) 1709–11 A Legend of Montrose 1819 Scottish Highlands 1644–5 Ivanhoe 1819 Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire (England) 1194 The Monastery 1820 Scottish Borders 1547–57 The Abbot 1820 Various in Scotland 1567–8…
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