Call for papers
Politics, Place & Print Culture: The 14th International Walter Scott Conference
28–30 June 2027, University of Edinburgh
The conference invites papers on any & all aspects of Walter Scott’s relationship to questions of politics, place & print culture
Deadline for proposals: 1 Oct 2026
https://www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6395
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You can read “Wandering Willie’s Tale” in our free ebook
AS IT WAS TOLD TO ME
Three Short Stories by Sir Walter Scott
🪞 “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror”: reckless romance & supernatural theatrics
🗡️ “The Two Drovers”: a slow-burn exposé of national conflict
🔥 “Wandering Willie’s Tale”: a trip to Hell, a demonic monkey, & an unreliable narrator
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/free-publications/as-it-was-told-to-me/
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“Stephen,” said Sir John, still in the same soft, sleekit tone of voice—“Stephen Stevenson, or Steenson, ye are down here for a year’s rent behind the hand—due at last term.”
—from “Wandering Willie’s Tale”, by Walter Scott: just what lengths do you have to go to to convince a landlord that you’ve paid the rent?
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Dr Gerard McKeever – Scotch Novels
Recorded on 4 September 2025 at the Edinburgh Sir Walter Scott Club.
Dr Gerard McKeever, lecturer in modern Scottish literature at the University of Edinburgh, speaks about Walter Scott’s relationship with Scotland, particularly through the lens of his so-called “Scotch Novels”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twvrXYw1Sus
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We did a trip to #Abbotsford house, the home of Sir Walter Scott. He was one of the most famous scottish writers of his time and wrote books like Ivanhoe or Rob Roy. Indeed, you still feel his presence in the house.
The Battle of Waterloo was fought #OTD, 18 June, 1815. Walter Scott visited the battlefield shortly after; his 1816 book PAUL’S LETTERS TO HIS KINSFOLK contains one of the earliest accounts of the aftermath, & is an important early example of war journalism
https://theconversation.com/walter-scott-war-journalism-from-the-waterloo-battlefield-43304
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“By using Scott’s characters to satirise the habits of male cookbook authors and champion women’s knowledge and writing, Johnstone also points to the underlying snobbery that might drive readers to view literature as more worthy of reading than ‘unimportant’ cookbooks”
—Dr Lindsay Middleton on gender, gastronomy & intertextual play in THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL
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‘[“What a style o’ language!” whispered Mrs Dods; “but I maun look after the scouring o’ the kettles!.”]’. So comes the parenthetical exclamation of Margaret (Meg) Dods, a fictional character in Sir Walter Scott’s novel, Saint Ronan’s Well (1823). This sentence does not come from Scott’s novel, set in a spa town in the Scottish borders, but […]
Under the pseudonym “Meg Dods” (a character from Walter Scott’s ST RONAN’S WELL) Christian Isobel Johnstone also wrote THE COOK & HOUSEWIFE’S MANUAL. Much of the advice is presented via the members of the equally fictitious Cleikum Club: “a small gathering of absurd diners who do not much like or trust each other”
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