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As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed
to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist.
First published in 1837-8, shortly after Scott's death, this
celebrated seven-volume work is based on personal memories,
correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.
Wide-ranging in his purview, Lockhart is also detailed in his
descriptions: the Aberdeen Journal of the day observed that the
volumes trace Scott's life and literary efforts with 'the most
minute distinctness'. Volume 1 opens with Scott's brief
autobiography, written in 1808 and revised in 1825. Lockhart's
biography proper opens with Scott's birth in 1771, provides an
account of his education, and concludes here with his first
contributions to the Edinburgh Review in 1804.
As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed
to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist.
First published in 1837-8, shortly after Scott's death, this
celebrated seven-volume work is based on personal memories,
correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.
Wide-ranging in his purview, Lockhart is also detailed in his
descriptions: the Aberdeen Journal of the day observed that the
volumes trace Scott's life and literary efforts with 'the most
minute distinctness'. Incorporating accounts of Scott's
correspondence with Southey, Wordsworth and Byron, Volume 2 opens
with the death of Walter's uncle, Captain Robert Scott, in 1804,
leading readers through the commencement of Waverley and the
foundation of the Ballantyne publishing firm. This portion of
Lockhart's account concludes in 1812.
As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed
to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist.
First published in 1837-8, shortly after Scott's death, this
celebrated seven-volume work is based on personal memories,
correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.
Wide-ranging in his purview, Lockhart is also detailed in his
descriptions: the Aberdeen Journal of the day observed that the
volumes trace Scott's life and literary efforts with 'the most
minute distinctness'. Volume 3 opens in 1812 with an account of
'one of the busiest summers of Scott's busy life', during which he
finally moved into his beloved Abbotsford. Incorporating extracts
from Scott's correspondence with the English poet George Crabbe,
this volume covers the period in which Scott finished Waverley
(1814) and published in verse The Field of Waterloo (1815).
As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed
to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist.
First published in 1837-8, shortly after Scott's death, this
celebrated seven-volume work is based on personal memories,
correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.
Wide-ranging in his purview, Lockhart is also detailed in his
descriptions: the Aberdeen Journal of the day observed that the
volumes trace Scott's life and literary efforts with 'the most
minute distinctness'. Volume 4 leads readers through the productive
years of 1816-20, covering the publication of the first Tales of My
Landlord (1816), The Heart of Midlothian (1818), and the
preparation of the manuscript of Ivanhoe (1820). Using Scott's
private correspondence, Lockhart reveals much about the writer's
agreements and disputes with distinguished men of politics and
letters.
As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed
to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist.
First published in 1837-8, shortly after Scott's death, this
celebrated seven-volume work is based on personal memories,
correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.
Wide-ranging in his purview, Lockhart is also detailed in his
descriptions: the Aberdeen Journal of the day observed that the
volumes trace Scott's life and literary efforts with 'the most
minute distinctness'. In volume 5, Lockhart examines Scott's
personal and professional life during the years 1820-5. After
introducing readers to the hospitality that Scott bestowed on his
guests at Abbotsford, the author then turns the reader's attention
to Scott's literary achievements with the publication of The Abbot
(1820) and the commencement of St Ronan's Well (1823).
As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed
to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist.
First published in 1837-8, shortly after Scott's death, this
celebrated seven-volume work is based on personal memories,
correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.
Wide-ranging in his purview, Lockhart is also detailed in his
descriptions: the Aberdeen Journal of the day observed that the
volumes trace Scott's life and literary efforts with 'the most
minute distinctness'. Volume 6 covers the years 1825-6, during
which Scott experienced literary triumph with the publication of
Tales of the Crusaders (1825), continued to work on Woodstock
(1826), and took an excursion to Ireland. The closing chapters
cover the banking crises of 1825 and hint at the financial
catastrophes that were to plague the author until his death seven
years later.
As son-in-law and literary executor to Sir Walter Scott
(1771-1832), John Gibson Lockhart (1794-1854) was uniquely placed
to produce a definitive biography of the great poet and novelist.
First published in 1837-8, shortly after Scott's death, this
celebrated seven-volume work is based on personal memories,
correspondence, and Scott's own autobiographical sketches.
Wide-ranging in his purview, Lockhart is also detailed in his
descriptions: the Aberdeen Journal of the day observed that the
volumes trace Scott's life and literary efforts with 'the most
minute distinctness'. Volume 7 covers the period from 1826 until
Scott's death in 1832. This was perhaps the darkest chapter in
Scott's life, during which his financial woes forced him to sell
the copyright for the Waverley novels. This final volume also
includes an appendix listing Scott's publications as well as an
index of names.
The first complete edition of Peter's Letters since 1819 Offers an
eyewitness account of Scotland at a key point in its cultural
history Includes fully edited text and apparatus Genesis and
publishing history of the work Provides detailed and precise
annotations In Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk (1819) the young
John Gibson Lockhart (under the guise of an elderly Welsh
physician) portrayed and analysed the society of Regency Glasgow
and Edinburgh in terms of German nationalist and Romantic
criticism. Focusing on the networks of the law, the church, the
universities, fine art, antiquarianism, literature, theatre, and
periodical culture he provided a series of brilliant, sometimes
serious and sometimes satirical, portraits of the most notable
characters of the day and the institutions they represented, and
his text is accompanied by a series of portrait engravings and of
vignettes of significant moments in his tour. This edition presents
the first complete text of this widely-allusive work published
since 1819, together with the substantial notes that a modern
reader requires to understand it fully. The editorial apparatus
also comprises a detailed index and an essay on the contemporary
illustrations.
Offers Lockhart's final text to modern readers for the first time
Offers the first scholarly edition of Lockhart's best-know novel
based on Lockhart's final text Supplies extensive annotation and
full scholarly apparatus Includes a thorough textual history based
on comparative study of the manuscript, corrected proof pages,
first edition, and second edition Some Passages in the Life of Mr
Adam Blair (1822), John Gibson Lockhart's second and best-known
novel, is the story of a Church of Scotland minister whose sexual
relationship with a married woman has tragic consequences. One of
the earliest serious studies in fiction of a minister in Scottish
society, the novel also explores gender roles through the character
of Blair's friend in the affair, Charlotte. This edition provides
the first modern publication of Lockhart's final text, the revised
second edition (1824), as well as the first scholarly edition of
the novel, including extensive annotations and a detailed textual
history.
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