Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Ancestry, Parentage, and Childhood
- CHAPTER II Youth—Choice or a Profession
- CHAPTER III Love and Marriage
- CHAPTER IV Earliest Poetry and Border Minstrelsy
- CHAPTER V Scott's Maturer Poems
- CHAPTER VI Companions and Friends
- CHAPTER VII First Country Homes
- CHAPTER VIII Removal to Abbotsford, and Life there
- CHAPTER IX Scott's Partnerships with the Ballantynes
- CHAPTER X The Waverley Novels
- CHAPTER XI Scott's Morality and Religion
- CHAPTER XII Distractions and Amusements at Abbotsford
- CHAPTER XIII Scott and George IV
- CHAPTER XIV Scott as a Politician
- CHAPTER XV Scott in Adversity
- CHAPTER XVI The Last Year
- CHAPTER XVII The End of the Struggle
CHAPTER II - Youth—Choice or a Profession
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2013
- Frontmatter
- PREFATORY NOTE
- Contents
- CHAPTER I Ancestry, Parentage, and Childhood
- CHAPTER II Youth—Choice or a Profession
- CHAPTER III Love and Marriage
- CHAPTER IV Earliest Poetry and Border Minstrelsy
- CHAPTER V Scott's Maturer Poems
- CHAPTER VI Companions and Friends
- CHAPTER VII First Country Homes
- CHAPTER VIII Removal to Abbotsford, and Life there
- CHAPTER IX Scott's Partnerships with the Ballantynes
- CHAPTER X The Waverley Novels
- CHAPTER XI Scott's Morality and Religion
- CHAPTER XII Distractions and Amusements at Abbotsford
- CHAPTER XIII Scott and George IV
- CHAPTER XIV Scott as a Politician
- CHAPTER XV Scott in Adversity
- CHAPTER XVI The Last Year
- CHAPTER XVII The End of the Struggle
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- Sir Walter Scott , pp. 18 - 29Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011First published in: 1878