A rich site for the Scott enthusiast: a substantial biography, synopses of his works, an impressive image collection, an annotated bibliography of recent Scott-related publications, links, and more. The creators of this site express their hope that "in time this website will become the main source of information on the life and work of Sir Walter Scott on the web" - but forget the "in time" part; it's already the premier Scott site. [Dept. of Special Collections, Edinburgh U Library]

Overview, contextual information, discussions and more. [VictorianWeb]

[Nathan Uglow, U Reading; Literary Encyclopedia]

[Writing Scotland; BBC]

[Edinburghers]

[Lucid Café]

[Famous Scots]

[Columbia Encyclopedia, Bartleby]

[Wikipedia]

[Gothic Labyrinth]

[Peter Landry, Biographies]

[John W. Cousins, A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, 1910]

A list of Scott etexts

[Eserver.org]

[The Authors Calendar]

[Scottish Writers on the Internet]

Part of the The Victorian Literary Studies Archive, this concordance allows you to search etexts of several of Scott's works, including The Bride of Lammermoor.

[FantasticFiction]

[National Portrait Gallery, London]

An etext of this extremely rare volume edited by Scott, which contains nine poems, many of the translations from German sources, all important works in the Gothic tradition. This web edition, edited by Prof. Douglass H. Thomson of Georgia Southern U, features a helpful introduction (including an important discussion of the "Scottish-German nexus" in the Gothic tradition), annotations, and illustrations. Highly recommended.

An excerpt from Scott's 1816 novel The Antiquary.

This tale is Chapter 2 of Scott's Chronicles of the Canongate. [Literature Classics]

This tale, published in 1828, is a very close imitation of "The Story of an Apparition," a brief ghost story published in Blackwood's ten years earlier by an author identified only as "A. B."

An excerpt from Scott's Waverly novel Redgauntlet — a work which Scott originally titled The Witch, before reducing the supernatural element to this single inset tale.