Walter Scott

Sir Walter Scott 17711832 was a Scottish historical novelist poet playwright and historian Many of his works remain classics of European and Scottish literature notably the novels Ivanhoe Rob Roy Waverley Old Mortality The Heart of MidLothian and The Bride of Lammermoor and the narrative poems The Lady of the Lake and Marmion He is often considered both the inventor and the greatest practitioner of the historical novel his knowledge of history and literary facility equipped him to establish the historical novel genre and as an exemplar of European Romanticism