Sir Walter Scott & Ivanhoe

General… 15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832 Historical novelist, Poet, Lawyer, Sheriff of Selkirkshire ‘’Ivanhoe’’, ‘’Rob Roy’’ , ‘’Lady of The Lake’’ Influences: Shakespeare, King James Bible, Edmund Spenser, Jonathan Swift Influenced: Honoré de Balzac, Victor Hugo, James Hogg

Early days Childhood bout of polio left him lame 1778 returned Edinburgh for private education 1779 began at the Royal High School of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh November 1783, at the age of 12 Studied classics Scott met blind poet Thomas Blacklock and Robert Burns Became lawyer in Edinburgh

Literary career At the age of 25 he began writing and translating from German Founded a printing press, his poetry brought him fame 1825 his printing company nearly collapsed He kept writing and producing biography of Napoleon

Ivanhoe Written in 1819, historical fiction Saxon noble family at a time when the English nobility was overwhelmingly Norman Hundred years after the Battle of Hastings While King Richard was fighting the Crusades abroad, his brother John tried to take the throne.

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