Woodstock (novel)
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Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one is an 1826 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, the 22nd in the series of Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civi
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Walter Scott
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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature. He is known for his Waverley novels, which were, for
Woodstock (novel)
…Woodstock, or The Cavalier. A Tale of the Year Sixteen Hundred and Fifty-one is an 1826 historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, the 22nd in the series of Waverley novels. Set just after the English Civil War, it was inspired by the legend of the Good Devil of Woodstock, which…
Sir Walter Scott by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1826
Scott's childhood at Sandyknowes, in the shadow of Smailholm Tower, introduced him to the tales and folklore of the Scottish Borders
The Scott family's home in George Square, Edinburgh, from about 1778
Sketch of Scott c.1800 by an unknown artist