Sir Walter Scott was the first literary man of a great riding, sporting, and fighting clan.
by Richard H. Hutton.
Chapter I: ancestry, parentage, and childhood.
Chapter II: youth-choice of a profession.
Chapter III: love and marriage.
Chapter IV: earliest poetry and border minstrelsy.
Chapter V: Scott’s mature poems.
Chapter VI: companions and friends.
Chapter VII: first country homes.
Chapter VII: removal to Abbotsford, and life there.
Chapter IX: Scott’s partnerships with the Ballantynes.
Chapter X: the Waverley novels.
Chapter XI: morality and religion.
Chapter XII: distractions and amusements at Abbotsford.
Chapter XIII: Scott’s and George IV.
Chapter XV: Scott’s in adversity.
Chapter XVI: the last year.
Chapter XVII: the end of the struggle.
