WorkSir Walter Scott
The Lady of the Lake (Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1810), Inferred
Sir Walter Scott (1771–1832) · Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1810
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Documented 1843–1846
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“a sweet little daughter of the house moved about lighter than any Scotch Ellen ever sung”
Fuller, Margaret. Summer on the Lakes, in 1843. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1844.
Inferred Fuller alludes to Ellen Douglas, the heroine of Walter Scott's narrative poem “The Lady of the Lake” (1810)..
“All this region and that of Loch Katrine and the Trosachs which we reached the next day, Scott has described exactly in “The Lady of the Lake”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . V." New-York Daily Tribune, 13 November 1846. · 13 November 1846
“Yet when I recall some passages in the Lady of the Lake, and the Address to his Harp, I cannot doubt that Scott had the full share of bitter in his cup, and feel the tender hope that we do about other gentle and generous guardians and benefactors of our youth, that in a nobler career they are now fulfilling still higher duties with serener mind, and trusting in us that we will try to fill their places with kindly deeds, ardent thoughts; nor leave the world in their absence, “A dim, vast vale of tears, Vacant and desolate.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Things and Thoughts in Europe . . . VI." New-York Daily Tribune, 23 December 1846. · 23 December 1846