Scott and Minstrelsy Presentation by Nicole and Laura

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Sir Walter Scott

• Sir Walter Scott was born on August 15^th, 1771 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
• Father was Walter Scott a solicitor. Mother was Anne Rutherford. Both parents could trace lineage back to border clans. On Anne’s mother’s side the family line can be traced back to the Earls of Douglas who are mentioned in The Minstrelsy.
• Ninth child. Six died.
• Scott was lame in his right leg after contracting polio but grew over six feet tall and was said to have wonderful endurance.
• Grandmother and Aunt fostered Scott’s love for ballads in Sandyknowe.
• Attended Edinburgh high school and Edinburgh University where he studied the arts and law.
• After being called to the bar, in 1799 he became Sheriff Depute of Selkirk County.
• Married Charlotte Carpenter on Christmas Eve, 1797. They had five children.
• He started a printing/publishing company with his friend James Ballantyne. When the company crashed Scott accepted all of the debts.
• Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border was his first major work and was published in 1802. It is a collection of ballads and folklore which he edited and according to some people changed a little. He argued that poetry is meant to be fluid.
• Scott gained much fame from The Lay of the Last Minstrel in 1805. Other works include Marmion, a historical romance in tetrameter in 1808. The Lady in the Lake in 1810.
• He began writing novels which include Ivanhoe(1819) Waverly(1814) and Guy Mannering(1815)
• Wrote The Life of Napoleon 1827 and it was nine volumes.
• He died in England on September 21^st, 1832 and is buried at Dryburgh Abbey.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
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• The Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border was very popular and had five editions in just nine years. Translated into German, Danish, Swedish, and published in North America.
• There were forty-three new ballads added to the last edition.
• Twenty-nine historical pieces and twenty-four romantic ballads included in Minstrelsy by the second edition.
• Critics were favorable to Minstrelsy. The Monthly Review did not react favorably but still complimented Scott on his style.
• Quote by friend and publisher Ballantyne “I shall ever think the printing the Scottish Minstrelsy one of the most fortunate circumstances of my life.”