1. Sir Walter Scott & Ivanhoe

2. 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

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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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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