The Bride of Lammermoor

Reading time: about 9 h
Length: 126,842 words · 230 pages
Structure: 35 chapters · 1 front-matter section
Language: English
Era: Romantic

Edgar, Master of Ravenswood, and Lucy Ashton fall in love despite their families' blood feud over the Ravenswood estate — Lucy's father having acquired it from Edgar's ruined family — and their secret engagement collides with Lucy's mother's plans to marry her off elsewhere, driving the novel to one of Scott's darkest endings.

Walter Scott published the novel in 1819 as part of his Tales of My Landlord series; it later became the basis for Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor.

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Walter Scott

1771–1832 · Romantic

Walter Scott (1771–1832) was born in Edinburgh, practised as an advocate, and held the offices of Sheriff-Depute of Selkirkshire and Clerk of Session for most of his life. He was the most popular poet in Britain — The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion, The Lady of the Lake — before turning, anonymously, to the Waverley novels in 1814. Ivanhoe (1819) was the first he set outside Scotland. Made a baronet in 1820, he was ruined by his publishers’ failure in 1826 and wrote on to pay the debts.

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