![]() Ravenswood and Lucy at the Mermaiden's Well by Charles Robert Leslie | |
Author | Walter Scott |
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Language | English, Lowland Scots |
Series | Waverley Novels |
Genre | Historical novel |
Published | 21 June 1819[1] |
Publisher | Archibald Constable (Edinburgh); Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. (London) |
Publication place | Scotland |
Media type | |
Pages | 269 (Edinburgh Edition, 1993) |
Preceded by | The Heart of Mid-Lothian |
Followed by | A Legend of the Wars of Montrose |
The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first edition), or shortly after the Act (in the 'Magnum' edition of 1830). It tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose were published together anonymously as the third of Scott's Tales of My Landlord series. The story is the basis for Donizetti's 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor.