Walter Scott - The Man Behind the Books
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Table of Contents
Journal
THE JOURNAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
Volume I
Preface
November
December
1826. — January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
1827 — January
February
March
April
May
June
Appendix
Volume II
July
August
September
October
November
December
1828 — January
February
March
April
May
June
July
1829 — January
February
March
April
May
June
July
1830 — May
June
July
September
December
1831 — January
February
March
April
May
October
November
December
1832 — January
February
March
April
Appendix
Letters
PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK
Letter I. Paul to His Sister Margaret
Letter II. Paul to His Cousin the Major
Letter III. Paul to His Cousin Peter
Letter IV. to the Same
Letter V. Paul to the Major
Letter VI. Paul to Major, in Continuation
Letter VIL. Paul to Major, in Continuation
Letter VIII. to the Same
Letter IX. Paul to His Sister Margaret
Letter X. Paul To, Esq. Of
Letter XI. to the Same
Letter XII. Paul to His Sister
Letter XIIL. the Same to the Same
Letter XIV. Paul, to the Major
Letter XV. Paul to the Reverend Mr, Minister of the Gospel at —
Letter XVI. Paul to His Cousin Peter
LETTERS OF MALACHI MALAGROWTHER
Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
LETTERS ON DEMONOLOGY AND WITCHCRAFT
Introduction
Letter I
Letter II
Letter III
Letter IV
Letter V
Letter VI
Letter VII
Letter VIII
Letter IX
Letter X
Various Articles and Essays
RELIQUES OF ROBERT BURNS
LIFE AND WORKS OF JOHN HOME
LIFE OF KEMBLE — KELLY’S REMINISCENCES
SALMONIA
ON PLANTING WASTE LANDS
ON LANDSCAPE GARDENING
TRIAL OF DUNCAN TERIG ALIAS CLERK, AND ALEXANDER BANE MACDONALD
BIOGRAPHY:
SIR WALTER SCOTT by George Saintsbury
Preface
Chapter I. LIFE TILL MARRIAGE
Chapter II. EARLY LITERARY WORK
Chapter III. THE VERSE ROMANCES
Chapter IV. THE NOVELS, FROM WAVERLEY TO REDGAUNTLET
Chapter V. THE DOWNFALL OF BALLANTYNE & COMPANY
Chapter VI. LAST WORKS AND DAYS
Chapter VII. CONCLUSION
SIR WALTER SCOTT by Richard H. Hutton
Prefatory Note
Chapter I. Ancestry, Parentage, and Childhood
Chapter II. Youth — Choice of a Profession
Chapter III. Love and Marriage
Chapter IV. Earliest Poetry and Border Minstrelsy
Chapter V. Scott’s Maturer Poems
Chapter VI. Companions and Friends
Chapter VII. First Country Homes
Chapter VIII. Removal to Abbotsford, and Life There
Chapter IX. Scott’s Partnerships With the Ballantynes
Chapter X. The Waverley Novels
Chapter XI. Morality and Religion
Chapter XII. Distractions and Amusements at Abbotsford
Chapter XIII. Scott and George Iv
Chapter XIV. Scott as a Politician
Chapter XV. Scott in Adversity
Chapter XVI. The Last Year
Chapter XVII. The End of the Struggle
MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE OF SIR WALTER SCOTT by J. G. Lockhart
Preface
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter XXV
Chapter XXVI
Chapter XXVII
Chapter XXVIII
Chapter XXIX
Chapter XXX
Chapter XXXI
Chapter XXXII
Chapter XXXIII
Chapter XXXIV
Chapter XXXV
Chapter XXXVI
Chapter XXXVII
Chapter XXXVIII
Chapter XXXIX
Chapter XL
Chapter XLI
Chapter XLII
Chapter XLIII
Chapter XLIV
Chapter XLV
Chapter XLVI
Chapter XLVII
Chapter XLVIII
Chapter XLIX
Chapter L
Chapter LI
Chapter LII
Chapter LIII
Chapter LIV
Appendix
Narrative of the Life of James Annesley
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Walter Scott
THE JOURNAL OF SIR WALTER SCOTT
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I have seen Cadell, Ballantyne, and Hogarth. All advise me to execute a trust of my property for payment of my obligations. So does John Gibson, and so I resolve to do. My wife and daughter are gloomy, but yet patient. I trust by my hold on the works to make it every man’s interest to be very gentle with me. Cadell makes it plain that by prudence they will, in six months, realise £20,000, which can be attainable by no effort of their own.
January 18. — He that sleeps too long in the morning, let him borrow the pillow of a debtor. So says the Spaniard, and so say I. I had of course an indifferent night of it. I wish these two days were over; but the worst is over. The Bank of Scotland has behaved very well; expressing a resolution to serve Constable’s house and me to the uttermost; but as no one can say to what extent Hurst and Robinson’s failure may go, borrowing would but linger it out.
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