The Bride of Lammermoor
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The Bride of Lammermoor is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne (1702-1714). 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.

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 and evil perpetrator of the whole intrigue, haughty and manipulative in her objective to cancel initial happy engagement between Edgar and Lucy and forcing the later to speedily arranged ill marriage with Laird of Bucklaw. In the climax, when the intrigue takes its full course, after wedding celebration, Lucy severely wounds her husband and descends quickly into insanity and dies. In the story, Caleb Balderstone, an eccentric old Ravenswood family retainer, provides some comic relief.

See also

• Lammermuir Hills

v • d • e Works by Walter Scott Novels: Waverley (1814) • Guy Mannering (1815) • The Antiquary (1816) • The Black Dwarf (1816) • Old Mortality (1816) • Rob Roy (1817) • The Heart of Midlothian (1818) • The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) • A Legend of Montrose (1819) • Ivanhoe (1819) • The Monastery (1820) • The Abbot (1820) • Kenilworth (1821) • The Pirate (1821) • The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) • Peveril of the Peak (1823) • Quentin Durward (1823) • St. Ronan's Well (1823) • Redgauntlet (1824) • The Betrothed (1825) • The Talisman (1825) • Woodstock (1826) • Chronicles of the Canongate (1827) • The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) • Anne of Geierstein (1829) • Count Robert of Paris (1831) • Castle Dangerous (1831)

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