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Comparative study Jane Austen Sir Walter Scott
Sir Walter ScottHis short
biography.
Walter Scott was born in Edinburgh
As the son of a Solicitor.
His father was a lawyer and Scott
him self was called to Scottish Bar
(1792)
At the age of eighteen months
he was crippled for life by a childish
aliment.
And though he grew up to be a
man of great physical
robustness he never lost his lameness.
Jane Austen the daughter of a
Hampshire clergymanWas born at Stevenson.
She was educated at home ; Jane’s education was
conducted on sound lines.
Her life was unexciting being little more than a series of pilgrimages to
different place of residence
Her first published works were issued anonymously, and she is died in middle
age.
Jan Austen and her short biography.
Walter Scott
Features of His NovelRapidity of
Production
His
Contribution
His Shaeske-sperian Quality
His Style
Her Features of the novel
Her PlotsHer
CharactersHer Place in the history of Fiction
Comparative Study
Walter Scott’s poem Scott ‘s earliest poetical efforts were translat- lations from the German. In The Lay of last Minstrel (1805) there is much more
originality. In popular estimation Marmion is held to be Scott's master masterpiece.
Jane Austen’s poem• Her first novel no-• vel was Pride and • Prejudice(1796-97• published 1813). • In it , as in all her
works, we have middle class people pursuing the common round.
Scott interested in the old Border tales and ballads
had early been awakened, and he devoted much of
his leisure to the exploration of the Border Country. His early years Scott spent in sanday-
know , in the residence of his paternal grand father .
There his grand mother told him tales of old
heroes.
Sir Walter Scott Home
Abbotsford
Tomb Of Sir Walter Scott
Their novels
Jane Austen• Sense And Sensibility (1811)• Pride and Prejudice (1813)• Mansfield Park (1814)• Emma (1815)• Persuasion (1818)
Walter Scott• Waverley (1814)• Ivanhoe (1819) (poem)• Life of Napoleon which was
published in 9 volumes in 1827.
• His Dramatic work:• Halidon Hill (1922)• A Melodrama (1830)
Writer and poet and born story teller and Master of
dialogue one of the greatest historical novelists whose
favorite subject was his native Scotland. Scott wrote twenty-
seven historical novel. His influence is seen among other
in the works of James Fennimore cooper Alexander
Dumas, and Alexander Pushkin.