Love, honor, and clan feud entangle a Highland maiden and a disguised king around the shores of Loch Katrine.
Books mentioned in The Lady of the Lake (8)
The Odyssey by Homer: “After the success of Marmion, I felt inclined to exclaim with Ulysses in the Odyssey:”
The Poems of Ossian by James Macpherson: “The Poems of Ossian had by their popularity sufficiently shown that, if writings on Highland subjects were qualified to interest the reader, mere national prejudices were, in the present day, very unlikely to interfere with their success.”
Bevis of Hampton: “Ascapart, or Ascabart, makes a very material figure in the History of Bevis of Hampton, by whom he was conquered.”
Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland by Edmund Burt: “The author of the Letters from the North of Scotland, an officer of engineers, quartered at Inverness about 1720, who certainly cannot be deemed a favorable witness, gives the following account of the office, and of a bard, whom he heard exercise his talent of recitation:”
The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon: “In a word, the law and humanity were alike: the one being more fallacious, and the other more barbarous, than in any age had been vented in such an authority' (Clarendon's History of the Rebellion).”
Military Antiquities by Francis Grose: “In the civil war of 1745 most of the front rank of the clans were thus armed; and Captain Grose (Military Antiquities, vol. i. p. 164) informs us that in 1747 the privates of the 42d regiment, then in Flanders, were for the most part permitted to carry targets.”
A Tour in Scotland by Thomas Pennant: “The skirmish is detailed in a curious memoir of Sir Ewan's life, printed in the Appendix of Pennant's Scottish Tour (vol. i. p. 375):”
The History of Scotland by John Pinkerton: “Therefore, we using such manner of shoes, the rough hairy side outwards, in your grace's dominions of England, we be called Rough-footed Scots' (Pinkerton's History, vol.”
Books that mention The Lady of the Lake (5)
Persuasion by Jane Austen: “…the richness of the present age, and gone through a brief comparison of opinion as to the first-rate poets, trying to ascertain whether Marmion or The Lady of the Lake were to be preferred, and how ranked the Giaour and The Bride of Abydos; and moreover, how the Giaour was to be pronounced, he…”
Anne of Green Gables by L. M. Montgomery: “I can read pretty well and I know ever so many pieces of poetry off by heart--'The Battle of Hohenlinden' and 'Edinburgh after Flodden,' and 'Bingen of the Rhine,' and most of the 'Lady of the Lake' and most of 'The Seasons' by James Thompson.”
Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: “She can do nowt but go about thinkin' herself somebody. 'The Lady of the Lake.”
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass: “Johnson had just been reading the "Lady of the Lake," and at once suggested that my name be "Douglass."”
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood: “She'd taken a copy of The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott out of the library”