Walter Scott, A Legend of Montrose

Nathan Uglow (Trinity All Saints, Leeds)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.06: English Writing and Culture of the Romantic Period, 1789-1837.
Vol. editors: Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Daniel Robinson (Widener University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1819

Places

Scotland (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Historical
Novel

Resources

In 1819 Walter Scott published the third series of his Tales of my Landlord collection. This third series comprised The Bride of Lammermoor (in three volumes) and A Legend of Montrose (as a single volume). The unifying theme of these 'tales' was their apparent collation by one Jedediah Cleishbotham, a proud pedant, who had received them from the late Peter Pattieson, a lively schoolmaster with a natural sympathy for outcasts of all varieties. Over the years at the (fictional) Wallace Inn in Gandercleugh, guests had recounted these tales to the attentive Pattieson who had no ambitions to authorship, but left his notes to Jedediah Cleishbotham who did have such ambitions. An introductory chapter to each of the …

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Citation: Uglow, Nathan. "A Legend of Montrose". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 16 July 2002 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=7169, accessed 26 November 2024.]

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