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A biography of the real Rob Roy McGregor called 'The Highland Rogue' was published during his lifetime (he died in 1734). But it wasn't until Scott that he became centre stage. The novel generated a...

'Rob Roy' was the most popular of Scott's Scottish romances. Since it concerns an earlier Jacobite rebellion, in 1715, it has been compared to 'Waverley', but unlike in 'Waverley', the rebellion is...

'You speak like a heroine', said Montoni contemptuously. 'We shall see whether you can suffer like one'.

And suffer Emily St. Aubert does, in Ann Radcliffe's best known Gothic shocker. The...

'1814 Year of Waverley' by Christopher Harvie is in the Clan Scotland series, a series about Scottish culture and history with an accompanying online resource, and is aimed partly at young people....

I can't skip or skim. When I read anything, I have to read it all, including the stodgy or less interesting bits. And the notes (all of them), appendices and so on......You get the picture.

I've got 'The Heart of Midlothian', but haven't read it yet.

Related fact - Heart of Midlothian Football Club (Hearts) is the only football team named after a novel.

Nay. Don't have anything.

'The Big Bang Theory'?

Urine

'The Antiquary' was Scott's third novel and was his own personal favourite. It is set in a Scottish burgh town and begins with the arrival of a young Englishman, Lovel, who is in Fairport on...

negative

Aye.

Guinea pigs?

onanism

educate

ingratiate

ingrate

Nay (rip-off)

Prune juice?

extension

Aye

Fruit bowl for fruit?

onside

Since Scott was hugely popular all over the English-speaking world (as well as being translated into numerous languages), it follows that a great many of his readers must have been non-Scots who were...

Amy Dudley is certainly very much a victim. The many portrayals of her in novels, including murder mysteries, always characterise her in the same way, so I assume they were following Scott's lead.
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Aye

Pencils?

ingot

etiolated

Nay

Turkish Delight?