Walter Scott

Walter Scott was born in 1771 in Edinburgh and remained lame from a childhood polio. A lawyer by profession, he began by collecting the ballads of the Scottish borders, then at the age of forty-two published anonymously a novel that invented a method: placing an ordinary hero in a documented historical conflict. The bankruptcy of his publisher, at the beginning of 1826, left him riddled with debts that he undertook to pay by writing without respite, an effort that ruined his health; he died in 1832.

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• NovelIvanhoeWalter Scott · 1819LiteraturePublic domain