Subject: Scott, Walter, 1771-1832 (Keywords)

The Victorian era was the high point of literary tourism. Here, Goldhill makes a pilgrimage to Sir Walter Scott's baronial mansion, Wordsworth's cottage in the Lake District, the Bronte's parsonage, Shakespeare's birthplace, and Freud's office in Hampstead.

Buchan vividly and affectionately describes the writer whose novels and poems made him the most popular author of his day. Scott was born in 1771 to a powerful Border family.