The abode, known as Barony House, isn't just famous for its grandeur; it's also where Ivanhoe author Sir Walter Scott supposedly kicked off his poetry career and allegedly indulged in opium-fuelled ...

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was born in Edimburgh ... One of his most famous novels is Ivanhoe, a very traditional story settled in the Middle Ages, in particular during the period of Richard ...

In 1820, sculptor Francis Legatt Chantrey (1781 - 1842) asked Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) to sit for him. Scott was a Scottish poet and writer whose books - including the popular 'Ivanhoe' - were ...

as exemplified in Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Politician, author and adventurer Rory Stewart chooses Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott as his Great Life. LISTEN: Politician and author Rory Stewart on ...

as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.

The founder of this genre, which had a great impact on Romantic Europe, was Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832), whose ... in individuals or in groups: Ivanhoe (1820) and Waverley (1814), his most ...

Ashby boasts a castle which was the setting for Sir Walter Scott's novel Ivanhoe, and is also the home town of Sue Townsend's Adrian Mole. It holds an arts festival every May, and a travelling ...

A white marble bust of eminent novelist Sir Walter Scott was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey in 1897 by the Duke of Buccleuch. It was the gift of a group of Scott's admirers and is a copy ...