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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

@litstudies

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

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

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

@litstudies

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 🥀

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

1/3

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

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

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

1/3

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

@litstudies

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

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

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

@litstudies

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

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

Aujourd'hui je vous emmène en Écosse visiter le Scott monument. Il a été construit dans le style néogothique au XIXe siècle, en hommage à Sir Walter Scott, l'un des écrivain écossais les plus connus.

Vous aussi vous voulez votre encre de Chine personnalisée? Rendez-vous ici:

https://ysae-illustrations.fr/produit/votre-paysage-encre-de-chine/

N'hésitez pas à partager!

#scottmonument #walterscott #drawingscotland #edimburgh#chinainkart #scotland #edinburghartwork #dessinencredechine

“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

5/5

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

“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

5/5

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

@litstudies

“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

2/5

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

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

@litstudies

“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

2/5

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

@litstudies

1/5

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

“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

@litstudies

1/5

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

11/18

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

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

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

11/18

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

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

"El talismán" es una novela de aventuras de Sir Walter Scott, un escritor clásico con creaciones muy interesantes.

En este libro, en concreto, se inspira la película "El reino de los cielos" de Ridley Scott. Poco que ver una con otro, pero una lectura muy recomendable, que cautiva hasta el final.

#literatu
#aventura
#WalterScott

https://www.elejandria.com/libro/el-talisman/walter-scott/732

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

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

Rob Roy Rogers

#FastFoodABook
#HashTagGames
#WalterScott

Rob Roy Rogers

#FastFoodABook
#HashTagGames
#WalterScott

“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

4/8

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

“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

4/8

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

"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

@litstudies

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

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #WalterScott

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

@litstudies

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

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #romanticism #WalterScott

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

@litstudies

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

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #WalterScott #womenwriters

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

@litstudies

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

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 🕊️🪦🎚️🕯️

#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

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)

(6/6)

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)

(6/6)

Dr Gerard McKeever – Scotch Novels

Recorded on 4 September 2025 at the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
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”.

@litstudies

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

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

Dr Gerard McKeever – Scotch Novels

Recorded on 4 September 2025 at the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
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”.

@litstudies

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

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

“…hearts in caskets
tossed onto a battle ground”

references the story of how James Douglas, taking Robert the Bruce’s embalmed heart to the Holy Land, was slain in battle in Spain. The story is given in (amongst other places) Walter Scott’s TALES OF A GRANDFATHER

2/4

#Scottish #literature #walterscott #history #medieval #middleages

“…hearts in caskets
tossed onto a battle ground”

references the story of how James Douglas, taking Robert the Bruce’s embalmed heart to the Holy Land, was slain in battle in Spain. The story is given in (amongst other places) Walter Scott’s TALES OF A GRANDFATHER

2/4

#Scottish #literature #walterscott #history #medieval #middleages

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-- Walter Scott

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterScott #Education

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.
-- Walter Scott

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #WalterScott #Education

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Panopainting #Flowers #Junkyard #Minnesota

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

Walter Scott’s phenomenally popular novels & poems created an image of Scotland as a land of sublime scenery & heroic chivalry. 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?

@litstudies

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

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #WalterScott #CulturalStudies

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

Walter Scott’s phenomenally popular novels & poems created an image of Scotland as a land of sublime scenery & heroic chivalry. 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?

@litstudies

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

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #WalterScott #CulturalStudies

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

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

Why weep ye by the tide, ladie?
Why weep ye by the tide?
I’ll wed ye to my youngest son,
And ye sall be his bride…

“The first stanza of this ballad is ancient. The others were written for Mr Campbell’s ALBYN’S ANTHOLOGY”

“Jock of Hazeldean” (Child 293), by Sir Walter Scott – sung by Jean Redpath

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzUR8MFWTk

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #ballads #folksong #music

Why weep ye by the tide, ladie?
Why weep ye by the tide?
I’ll wed ye to my youngest son,
And ye sall be his bride…

“The first stanza of this ballad is ancient. The others were written for Mr Campbell’s ALBYN’S ANTHOLOGY”

“Jock of Hazeldean” (Child 293), by Sir Walter Scott – sung by Jean Redpath

10/10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbzUR8MFWTk

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #Romanticism #19thcentury #ballads #folksong #music

AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME
Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott

FREE ebook introduced by Prof Daniel Cook

🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator

9/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/as-it-was-told-to-me/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #shortstories

AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME
Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott

FREE ebook introduced by Prof Daniel Cook

🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator

9/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/as-it-was-told-to-me/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #shortstories

Literary Tourism, the Trossachs, & Walter Scott

11 essays examining tourism in the Trossachs before & after Scott’s “The Lady of the Lake” (1810), surveying the Gaelic culture of the area, & tracing Scott’s impact on those who thronged in his wake

8/10

https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/occasional_papers/literary_tourism/

#Scottish #literature #WalterScott #19thcentury #Romanticism #Gaelic #Gaidhlig #Trossachs #tourism #literarytourism