Writer. Born Edinburgh. Extremely popular in his lifetime, worldwide. Novels include: Waverley and Ivanhoe. Poems: Lady of the Lake. Died Abbotsford, south of Edinburgh, his home since 1812.
"O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!"
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Dorothy Richardson
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Mrs Gaskell
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W. E. H. Lecky
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Barbara Pym
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