Edinburgh Under Sir Walter Scott
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Edinburgh Under Sir Walter Scott is a book by W. T. Fyfe. The introduction says that from approximately the death of Samuel Johnson in 1784 to that of Walter Scott in 1832, Edinburgh, rather than London, was the intellectual centre of the kingdom. The chapter summaries include one for Chapter LI that lists the Jury Court, Chief-Commissioner Adam and the Blairadam Club, among other topics.
The summary for Chapter LII, headed 1816, lists The Antiquary, the Death of Major John Scott and The Black Dwarf and Blackwood, among others. The text quotes a description of a sculpture of Adam digging the ground and Eve twirling the distaff, with the old rhyme beneath: When Adam delv'd and Eva span. The text says that on resuming his duties in Edinburgh at the end of November (1826), Scott went to reside in a furnished house in Walker Street, which he had taken for the winter.
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- W. T. Fyfe
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- 199
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