Front cover image for Sir Walter Scott's friends

Sir Walter Scott's friends

Print Book, English, 1909
W. Blackwood, Edinburgh, 1909
xiii, 448 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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I. Old ladies of Sir Walter's youth: Alison Rutherford (Mrs. Cockburn), Mrs. Anne Murray Keith
II. Parliament house friends: George Cranstoun (Lord Corehouse), Thomas Thomson (Deputy-clerk registrar), William Erskine (Lord Kinnedder), Jane Anne Cranstoun (Countess Purgstall)
III. Family friends: Tytlers of Woodhouselee. Clerks of Eldin and Adams of Blair-Adam. Mrs. Maclean Clephane of Torloisk
IV. Makers of the 'Minstrelsy': Introductory. John Leyden. Joseph Ritson. Robert Surtees of Mainsforth. Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe. James Hogg
V. Buccleuch group: The house of Buccleuch. Frances, lady Douglas. Lady Louisa Stuart
VI. 'Marmion' group: William Stewart Rose. George Ellis. Sir William Forbes. James Skene and Colin Mackenzie
VII. Literary ladies: Anna Seward. Joanna Baillie
VIII. J.B.S. Morritt of Rokeby
IX. The Abbotsford household: Sir Adam Fergusson. Willie Laidlaw. Tom Purdie
X. Scott's relation to other poets: Campbell. Crabbe. Moore. Lord Byron. Wordsworth and Southey
Includes index