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Sir '''Walter Scott''' (1771-1832) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] novelist and [[poet]] who is most famous for writing ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' (1820), a novel about a complicated romance in twelfth century [[England]]. Scott is the father of both the regional and historical novels.

Sir '''Walter Scott''' (1771-1832) was a [[Scotland|Scottish]] novelist and [[poet]] who is most famous for writing ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' (1820), a novel of nearly 200,000 words about a complicated romance in twelfth-century [[England]].<ref name="Gutenberg">Available online at [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/82/82-h/82-h.htm Gutenberg]</ref> Scott is the father of both the regional and historical novels.

It was Scott who wrote, "what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to [[deceit|deceive]]!"<ref>Scott's poem entitled ''Marmion'' (1808).</ref>

It was Scott who wrote, "what a tangled web we weave, when first we practise to [[deceit|deceive]]!"<ref>Scott's poem entitled ''Marmion'' (1808).</ref>  An oft-quoted phrase from ''Ivanhoe'' is “I have been accustomed to study men’s countenances, and I can read in thine honesty and resolution.”<ref name="Gutenberg"/>

Scott was also highly influential in the resurgence of Scottish [[nationalism]], which had been suppressed since the Jacobite rising of 1745, and had a major part in the fabrication of the romantic image of the [[tartan]]-[[kilt]]ed Scotsman which we still have today.

Scott was also highly influential in the resurgence of Scottish [[nationalism]], which had been suppressed since the Jacobite rising of 1745, and had a major part in the fabrication of the romantic image of the [[tartan]]-[[kilt]]ed Scotsman which we still have today.