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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 12th-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 about a complicated romance in 12th-century England. Scott is the father of both the regional and historical novels.
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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 Scotman 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 Scotman which we still have today.
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== See also ==
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*[[Lewis Carroll]]
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*[[George Gordon, Lord Byron]]
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