Beschreibung:
A biography of Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), published in the first series of 'English Men of Letters' in 1878.
Prefatory note; 1. Ancestry, parentage, and childhood; 2. Youth - choice of a profession; 3. Love and marriage; 4. Earliest poetry and Border Ministrelsy; 5. Scott's maturer poems; 6. Companions and friends; 7. First country homes; 8. Removal to Abbotsford, and life there; 9. Scott's partnerships with the Ballantynes; 10. The Waverley novels; 11. Scott's morality and religion; 12. Distractions and amusements at Abbotsford; 13. Scott and George IV; 14. Scott as a politician; 15. Scott in adversity; 16. The last year; 17. The end of the struggle.