The Bride of Lammermoor
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| Author | Sir Walter Scott |
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| Country | Scotland |
| Language | English, Lowland Scots |
| Series | Tales of My Landlord (3rd series) |
| Genre(s) | Historical novel |
| Publication date | 1819 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| ISBN | NA |
The Bride of Lammermoor is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne. Along with A Legend of Montrose, it forms the third series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord; the two novels were published together in 1819.
The novel was used as the basis for Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor.
The story is fictional, but was based (Scott tells us) on an actual incident in the history of the Stair family. "The family of Dalrymple," observes Scott, "produced within two centuries as many men of talent, civil and military, of literary, political and professional eminence, as any house in Scotland."
The spelling Lammermoor is an Anglicisation of the Scots Lammermuir.
[edit] Plot outline
The story recounts the tragic love of Edgar, Master of Ravenswood, with Lucy Ashton, the daughter of Ravenswood's enemy Sir William Ashton. Sir William's wife, Lady Ashton, is the villain of the piece, haughty and manipulative; Caleb Balderstone, an eccentric old Ravenswood family retainer, provides some comic relief.
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