The subject of "The Murder of Helen Jewett", born Dorcas Doyen, was said to have enjoyed the novels of Sir Walter Scott.
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Cooper's second novel, "The Spy", was based on Sir Walter Scott's Waverly series.
Balzac based his own idea for a series of historical novels about France on Scott's Waverly novels.
Collins considered Scott the "King, Emperor, President, and God Almighty of novelists."
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Walter Scott suffered from polio as a child, and walked with a limp all his life. Trained as a barrister, Scott was always more interested in reading, particularly history and medieval romances--all of which he would eventually make use of in his novels. He began collecting folklore and country ballads, and began to write poetry and, finally, the novels that were to make him famous. The poem, "The Lay of the Last Minstrel", published in 1805, was his first successful work; after that, virtually more...
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08/15/1771 Edinburgh, Scotland, Great Britain, United Kingdom, British Isles, Western Europe,
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Great historial read.