#walter-scott — Public Fediverse posts

He will outlast us, churning out his books,
advocate and historian, his prose
earning him Abbotsford with its borrowed gates,
its cheap mementos from the land he made…

—Iain Crichton Smith, “At the Scott Exhibition, Edinburgh Festival”
published in DEER ON THE HIGH HILLS (Carcanet, 2021)

https://www.carcanet.co.uk/9781800170940/deer-on-the-high-hills/

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WalterScott #IainCrichtonSmith #writers #writing

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Did Walter Scott Invent Scotland?
Dr Juliet Shields’ 2017 Gresham College Fulbright lecture

Why is it Scott’s version, rather than any of the many other 19th-century literary representations of Scotland, that has endured in the popular imagination?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxBpDfV6SHE

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel #romanticism

From Sept 2025 – Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #Scotland ##19thcentury #Victorian #novel

Walter Scott, Opera, & the Italian Journey

“What was it about Scott’s poems and novels that attracted composers all over Europe—and inspired more than seventy operas? […] We have four on Rob Roy, four on The Heart of Midlothian, eight on The Bride of Lammermoor, and no less than eleven each on Ivanhoe and Kenilworth.”

📷 “Lucia di Lammermoor”, Metropolitan Opera 2011

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2011/05/scott-opera-and-the-italian-journey/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #opera #classicalmusic

“no other single literary figure—not Shakespeare or Dickens—has been more significant in the evolution of film narrative”

—Prof Tim Dolin, “The Great Uncredited: Sir Walter Scott & Cinema”

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https://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-34-first-release/the-great-uncredited-sir-walter-scott-and-cinema/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel #cinema #film #cinemahistory

“Scott is the most filmic of writers… He may be considered difficult to read today, long-winded & meandering by modern standards, but his narratives still come alive when the characters move dramatically in a visual world”

—Walter Scott & Cinema

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2013/05/wattie-goes-to-hollywood-scott-scotland-and-film/

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“No Romanticist or Victorianist can excuse an ignorance of Scott. Back then, everybody read him. He was the first global superstar of the novel… Everybody read Scott, no exceptions.”

—Prof Adam Roberts on Walter Scott

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http://amechanicalart.blogspot.com/2016/06/some-thoughts-on-scott.html

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #19thcentury #Victorian #romanticism #novel

“The influence of Walter Scott can be felt in every province of the literature of his age.”
—Pushkin

Walter Scott was born #OTD, 15 Aug 1771. He was & is one of the most significant figures in world literature

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/issues/issue-16/

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CFP: “Politics, Place, & Print Culture”: the 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Papers are invited papers on any & all aspects of Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture. Deadline 1 Oct 2026

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https://llc.ed.ac.uk/english-and-scottish-literature/14th-international-walter-scott-conference

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #bookhistory #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #CallforPapers

On June 26th, 2025: #WalterScott, American R&B singer ( #TheWhispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), died of cancer at 81.
#RIP 🥀

The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism

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https://theconversation.com/walter-scott-war-journalism-from-the-waterloo-battlefield-43304

#Scottish #literature #Waterloo #history #19thcentury #journalism #WalterScott

Call for papers
Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh

The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture

Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026

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https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #SirWalterScott #WalterScott #callforpapers #printculture

The Most Exquisite Tiny Books in the World

For all of the bookworms, here are some of the most exquisitely rendered miniature books in the world.

As a warm up, here’s a picture of the bombed-out Holland House library in London during WW2. The message was loud and clear. Readers won’t be perturbed from doing what they love, no matter what else is going on around them. There is something comforting in that.

Shiki no Kusabana (The Flower of Seasons)

This miniscule book has pages measuring a measly 0.75 millimetres (0.03 inches), and writing that’s impossible to read with the naked eye.

The charming 22 page book has monochromatic illustrations of Japanese flowers and their descriptions. The printing company responsible for Shiki no Kusabana used similar technology as used by money printers to prevent forgery, with letters spaced an amazing 0.101 mm apart.

This book was created in recent years to compete against the current Guiness World Record holder for the world’s smallest book, but failed to cut the mustard. Still, it’s incredibly beautiful in its own right. Shiki no Kusabana is on display at the Toppan Printing Museum in Tokyo.

Here it is next to the eye of a needle…

The Chameleon by Anton Checkov

The claim for the smallest book in the world goes to the 30 page volume (in English) of the Russian novel The Chameleon by Anton Checkov. This was created by Siberian craftsman Anatoly Konenko in 1996 and measures a tiny 0.9 mm, or about the same size of a grain of salt. Astonishingly, this book also has three colour illustrations, but nothing can be seen with the naked eye.

The University of Iowa Library

This library has around 4,000 miniature books on the shelves.

For more mini book inspiration visit The Telegraph and Word Histories

My Very Own Tiny Book

This one comes from a country market in Cardigan, Wales. It’s leather-bound with gold leaf writing on the cover and entitled The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott, printed in Glasgow by David Brice and Sons, published in MCMV (1905).

It’s probably the oldest thing I own and one of the most treasured. Other treasured old things include, a 1940’s vintage red dress from Poland, which I wear all the time (it most certainly has a story), a pair of battered old leather boots, and books, lots more books.

Do you have any books that you treasure? do you have any tiny books?

Content Catnip

“Henry Cunningham, Esq. of Boquhan, was a gentleman of Stirlingshire, who, like many exquisites of our own time, united a natural high spirit and daring character with an affectation of delicacy of address and manners amounting to foppery…”

—From Walter Scott’s 1829 Introduction to ROB ROY

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#Scottish #literature #history #historicalfiction #romanticism #WalterScott

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“Scott’s novel concerns itself with the benefits and virtues of a globalized economy, and the risks we run if we ignore those who are excluded from it”

—Prof Ali Lumsden on Walter Scott’s ROB ROY

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https://www.publicbooks.org/walter-scotts-rob-roy-200/

#Scottish #literature #history #historicalfiction #romanticism #WalterScott

“It is not a romantic Tale that the Reader is here presented with, but a real History. Not the Adventures of a Robinson Crusoe, a Colonel Jack, or a Moll Flanders, but the Actions of the HIGHLAND ROGUE…”

Rob Roy MacGregor was baptised #OTD, 7 March, 1671. Walter Scott’s novel made the Scottish outlaw internationally famous – & created the model for today’s roguish antiheroes

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https://theconversation.com/two-centuries-before-marvel-and-star-wars-walter-scotts-rob-roy-was-the-first-modern-anti-hero-89421

#Scottish #literature #history #historicalfiction #romanticism #WalterScott

The Edinburgh & Borders of Sir Walter Scott & Muriel Spark

Prof Gerry Carruthers in 2024, looking at how both Walter Scott & Muriel Spark engage with the ideas of the Borders & of Edinburgh – reflecting the wider complexity of Scotland, the world & the human condition

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https://youtu.be/rZit4cibGds?si=5GccyWk4p7V4Xb6Q

#Scottish #literature #MurielSpark #20thCentury #WomenWriters #WalterScott #Borders #Edinburgh

BBC News: I got to say 'high' to Sir Walter Scott as he gets a monumental face-lift

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r73r212rwo

#WalterScott #Glasgow #Scotland #Writing #Books

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“While WAVERLEY and KIDNAPPED remain literary touchstones, MIDWINTER feels like a misstep”

Greg Michaelson compares three novels of the ’45 Jacobite rebellion, by Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, & John Buchan respectively

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2025/12/midwinter-waverley-and-kidnapped-tangled-tales-of-the-45/

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #20thcentury #JohnBuchan #Jacobite #HistoricalFiction #WalterScott #robertlouisStevenson

"Burning Bridges" is a song written by #WalterScott, and best known for its 1960 recording by #JackScott, which was a #3 hit in the US. This was the only hit song for composer Walter Scott, who was no relation to Jack Scott. The song was originally recorded by a relatively obscure country act called The Home Towners in 1957, but did not chart. Recorded by Jack Scott in 1960, "Burning Bridges" reached No. 3 on the #BillboardHot100, No. 5 on the #USRAndBChart.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj-a0pbn38g

Unveiling Lady Scott
Walter Scott, French Influence & Transcultural Connections
Free online from 26 Nov–10 Dec 2025

Céline Sabiron sheds new light on Walter Scott’s work by investigating the French influence of his wife, Charlotte Charpentier & argues that she, as a knowledgeable art & literature enthusiast, greatly assisted him in his work as his secretary, amanuensis, & proofreader

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https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/unveiling-lady-scott/312FE027B29B98DEA13AEFD0A39EA095

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Tales of a Grandmother: Female Literary Agency & its Echoes in Scotland’s Cultural Memory in the Age of Scott
25 Nov, Glasgow University & online. Free

Walter Scott’s shadow eclipsed most of his contemporary writers in Scotland’s cultural memory of the early 19th century. Leonie Jungen investigates CLAN-ALBIN by Christian Isobel Johnstone (1781–1857), published one year after Scott’s WAVERLEY

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https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leonie-jungen-tales-of-a-grandmother-tickets-1700991755129

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #WalterScott #womenwriters

Breathes there a man with soul so dead
Who never to himself has said
What could be better than an Italian red
On a cold winter's evening

#walterscott #wine

#OnThisDay in 1943, #WalterScott, American R&B singer (The Whispers - "And the Beat Goes On"; "Rock Steady"), born in Fort Worth, Texas (d. 2025).
#HappyBirthday #RIP 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️

Call it not vain:—they do not err,
Who say, that when the Poet dies,
Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,
And celebrates his obsequies…

—from Canto V, “The Lay of the Last Minstrel” by Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) – died #OTD, 21 September

https://www.theotherpages.org/poems/canto05.html

#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #WalterScott #19thcentury #romanticism

I can decorate for a party (#ClaudeReese)
I can ask a cop a question (#RandyEvans)
I can cash a check in peace (#YvonneSmallwood)
I can take out my wallet (#AmadouDiallo)
I can run (#WalterScott)
I can breathe (#EricGarner)
I can live (#FreddieGray)
I CAN BE ARRESTED WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING MURDERED (#GeorgeFloyd)

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