ocr: WHATE Historic Houses Abbotsford House Relates WHo u0ie Scott, Sir Walter Auinalfons Usssiration Thotosraphs Scott, Sir Walter. 1771-1832. scottish writer. The first major historical novelist and the one who inspired much of the modern image of "romantic Scotland", Walter Scott was an Edinburgh lawyer's son trom a branch ofthe great Border house of Scott of Buccleuch. Relates WHERE tales Lamed of by Borders polio in his derring-do, childhood, eagerly he listened absorbed avidlyto Photographs) Reates WHAT ballads and histories, and explored the border country itself. After school and Edinburgh ...