Sir Walter Scott

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  • Nathan Uglow (Trinity All Saints, Leeds)

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Engraving by Isaac Moseley Danforth after the 1824 portrait by Charles Robert Leslie, courtesy The Walter Scott Digital Archive, Edinburgh University Library.
Walter Scott was born on August 15th, 1771, the ninth child and third son of Walter Scott and his wife Anne. His father was a stern and conscientious lawyer who thought literature a trivial subject and advocated steady professional dedication as the means of progress. He was his own best example, h…
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Citation:
Uglow, Nathan. "Sir Walter Scott". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 27 March 2002
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=5094, accessed 28 September 2016.]

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