Walter Scott (GBR)

Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet, FRSE (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet.

Scott was the first modern English-language author to have a truly international career in his lifetime, with many contemporary readers in Europe, Australia, and North America. His novels and poetry are still read, and many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature. Famous titles include Ivanhoe, Rob Roy, The Lady of the Lake, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian and The Bride of Lammermoor.

Although primarily remembered for his extensive literary works and his political engagement, Scott was an advocate, judge and legal administrator by profession, and throughout his career combined his writing and editing work with his daily occupation as Clerk of Session and Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire.

A prominent member of the Tory establishment in Edinburgh, Scott was an active member of the Highland Society and served a long term as President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1820–32).

Bibliography

The Waverley Novels series
The Waverley Novels is the title given to the long series of Scott novels released from 1814 to 1832 which takes its name from the first novel, Waverley. The following is a chronological list of the entire series:

1814: Waverley
1815: Guy Mannering
1816: The Antiquary
1816: The Black Dwarf and The Tale of Old Mortality – the 1st installment from the subset series, Tales of My Landlord
1817: Rob Roy
1818: The Heart of Midlothian – the 2nd installment from the subset series, Tales of My Landlord
1819: Ivanhoe
1819: The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose – the 3rd installment from the subset series, Tales of My Landlord
1820: The Monastery and The Abbot – from the subset series, Tales from Benedictine Sources
1821: Kenilworth
1822: The Pirate
1822: The Fortunes of Nigel
1822: Peveril of the Peak
1823: Quentin Durward
1824: St. Ronan's Well
1824: Redgauntlet
1825: The Betrothed and The Talisman – from the subset series, Tales of the Crusaders
1826: Woodstock
1828: The Fair Maid of Perth – the 2nd installment from the subset series, Chronicles of the Canongate (sometimes not considered as part of the Waverley Novels series)
1829: Anne of Geierstein
1832: Count Robert of Paris and Castle Dangerous – the 4th installment from the subset series, Tales of My Landlord

Other novels
1831–1832: The Siege of Malta – a finished novel published posthumously in 2008
1832: Bizarro – an unfinished novel (or novella) published posthumously in 2008

Poetry
Many of the short poems or songs released by Scott were originally not separate pieces but parts of longer poems interspersed throughout his novels, tales, and dramas.

1796: "Translations and Imitations from German Ballads"
1796: "The Chase" – an English-language translation of the German-language poem by Gottfried August Bürger entitled "Der Wilde Jäger" (or, "The Wild Huntsmen", its more common English translation)
1802–1803: "The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"
1805: "The Lay of the Last Minstrel"
1806: "Ballads and Lyrical Pieces"
1808: "Marmion"
1810: "The Lady of the Lake"
1811: "The Vision of Don Roderick"
1813: "The Bridal of Triermain"
1813: "Rokeby"
1815: "The Field of Waterloo"
1815: "The Lord of the Isles"
1817: "Harold the Dauntless"

Short stories
1827: "The Highland Widow", "The Two Drovers", and "The Surgeon's Daughter" – the 1st installment from the series, Chronicles of the Canongate
1828: "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror", "The Tapestried Chamber", and "Death of the Laird's Jock" – from the series, The Keepsake Stories

Plays
1799: Goetz of Berlichingen, with the Iron Hand: A Tragedy – an English-language translation of the 1773 German-language play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe entitled Götz von Berlichingen
1822: Halidon Hill
1823: MacDuff's Cross
1830: The Doom of Devorgoil
1830: Auchindrane

Non-fiction
1814–1817: The Border Antiquities of England and Scotland – a work co-authored by Luke Clennell and John Greig with Scott's contribution consisting of the substantial introductory essay, originally published in 2 volumes from 1814 to 1817
1815–1824: Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and Drama – a supplement to the 1815–1824 editions of the Encyclopædia Britannica
1816: Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk
1819–1826: Provincial Antiquities of Scotland
1821–1824: Lives of the Novelists
1825–1832: The Journal of Sir Walter Scott
1826: The Letters of Malachi Malagrowther
1827: The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte
1828: Religious Discourses
1828: Tales of a Grandfather; Being Stories Taken from Scottish History – the 1st installment from the series, Tales of a Grandfather
1829: The History of Scotland: Volume I
1829: Tales of a Grandfather; Being Stories Taken from Scottish History – the 2nd installment from the series, Tales of a Grandfather
1830: Essays on Ballad Poetry
1830: The History of Scotland: Volume II
1830: Tales of a Grandfather; Being Stories Taken from Scottish History – the 3rd installment from the series, Tales of a Grandfather
1830: Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
1831: Tales of a Grandfather; Being Stories Taken from the History of France – the 4th installment from the series, Tales of a Grandfather

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Scott