Walter Scott/Bibliography

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Scott's writings

Original collection

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (3 vols). 1802-3

Long narrative poems

The Lay of the Last Minstrel. 1805

Marmion. 1808

The Lady of the Lake. 1810

Rokeby. 1813

The Bridal of Triermain. 1813

The Lord of the Isles. 1815

Harold the Dauntless. 1817

Novels

Waverley, or 'Tis sixty years since. 1814

Guy Mannering. 1815

The Antiquary. 1816

Tales of my Landlord, first series:

The Black Dwarf. 1816

Old Mortality. 1816

Tales of my Landlord, second series:

Rob Roy. 1817

The Heart of Midlothian. 1818

Tales of my Landlord, third series:

The Bride of Lammermoor. 1819

A Legend of Montrose. 1819

Ivanhoe. 1819

The Monastery. 1820

The Abbot. 1820

Kenilworth. 1821

The Pirate. 1821

The Fortunes of Nigel. 1822

Peveril of the Peak. 1823

Quentin Durward. 1823

St Ronan's Well. 1823

Redgauntlet. 1824

Tales of the Crusaders

The Betrothed. 1825

The Talisman. 1825

Woodstock. 1826

Chronicles of the Canongate, first series - see below: Short stories

Chronicles of the Canongate, second series:

The Fair Maid of Perth, 1828

Anne of Geierstein, 1829

Tales of my Landlord, fourth series:

Count Robert of Paris, 1831

Castle Dangerous, 1831

Short stories

Chronicles of the Canongate, first series, 1827

The Highland Widow

The Two Drovers

The Surgeon's Daughter

Drama

Halidon Hill, 1822

MacDuff's Cross, 1823

The Doom of Devorgoil, a melodrama, 1830

Auchindrane, or the Ayrshire Tragedy, 1830

History and Biography

Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, 1827

Tales of a Grandfather, 1827-30

History of Scotland, 1829-30

See also, below, Scott's Letters, and his Journal

Writings about Scott

Biographies etc

The letters of Sir Walter Scott. ed. H. J. C. Grierson and others, centenary edn, 12 vols. Constable. 1932-8

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott. ed. W. E. K. Anderson. Oxford University Press. 1972

Lockhart, J G. Memoirs of the life of Sir Walter Scott. 7 vols. Robert Cadell. 1837–8

Johnson, E. Sir Walter Scott: the great unknown, 2 vols. Hamish Hamilton. 1970

Sutherland, J. The life of Sir Walter Scott. John Wiley and Sons. 1995

Melville Clark, A. Sir Walter Scott: the formative years. Blackwell. 1969

Hogg, J. Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott, ed. D. S. Mack. Scottish Academic Press.1983