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The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first edition), or shortly after the Act (in the 'Magnum' edition of 1830).
- Walter Scott
- 1819
The poetry of this satire on Lord Stair and his family was, as already noticed, written by Sir William Hamilton of Whitelaw, a rival of Lord Stair for the situation of President of the Court of Session; a person much inferior to that great lawyer in talents, and equally ill-treated by the calumny or just satire of his contemporaries as an ...
The Bride of Lammermoor stands out as Sir Walter Scott's most tragic work, closely aligning with the Gothic novel tradition. These novels gained immense popularity during the late 18th and...
Complete summary of Sir Walter Scott's The Bride of Lammermoor. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Bride of Lammermoor.
The Bride of Lammermoor. The Author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew the tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties.
Scott gives the impression that the novels are written by one Jedediah Cleishbotham who is editing the stories of the late Peter Pattieson who heard the tales from his landlord. The landlord in Cervantes’s tale has inherited a portmanteau of books and manuscripts containing chivalric stories.
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This page provides a brief summary of the plot of Scott's novel The Bride of Lammermoor , contained in Tales of My Landlord , Third Series, the background to its creation and how it was received at the time by critics and the public.
