The doomed love of Lucy Ashton and Edgar Ravenswood, divided by their families' feud over ancestral lands.
Books mentioned in The Bride of Lammermoor (4)
Memorialls; or, The Memorable Things that Fell Out within this Island of Brittain from 1638 to 1684 by Robert Law: “But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law's Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson's poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of the Bride of Lammermoor, the Author feels himself now at…”
A Large Description of Galloway by Andrew Symson: “But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law's Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson's poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of the Bride of Lammermoor, the Author feels himself now at…”
Wit's Interpreter by John Cotgrave: “He is really in much need of Wit's Interpreter, or the Complete Letter-Writer, and were I you, I would send him a copy by the bearer.”
The Complete Letter-Writer: “He is really in much need of Wit's Interpreter, or the Complete Letter-Writer, and were I you, I would send him a copy by the bearer.”
Books that mention The Bride of Lammermoor (2)
The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas: “She expected every moment that she should see Morrel appear, pale and trembling, to forbid the signing of the contract, like the Laird of Ravenswood in "The Bride of Lammermoor."”
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce: “What are you reading now, captain? Dixon asked. _The Bride of Lammermoor?_ —I love old Scott, the flexible lips said, I think he writes something lovely.”