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司各特从爱丁堡搬到塞尔扣克郡的乡村之后,开始了文学生涯的新篇章:他开始写小说了。19世纪的作家没有人不读沃尔特·司各特,他是第一个浪漫小说大师和那个时代最成功的作家。简·奥斯汀读他的第一本小说《韦弗利》之后说,司各特已经是个成功的诗人了,没有必要再写这么好的小说啊。像诗人罗伯特·彭斯一样,司各特也收集传统的苏格兰民谣,1811年他买下爱丁堡郊外特威德河畔的阿伯茨福德的时候,40岁的他已经非常富有非常成功,一
After Scott moved from Edinburgh to Selkirk County, he started a new chapter in his literary career: he started writing novels. None of the 19th-century writers read Walter Scott, the first master of romantic novels and the most successful writer of that era. Jane Austen, after reading his first novel, Waverly, said that Scott was a successful poet and that there was no need to write such a good novel. Like the poet Robert Burns, Scott had also collected traditional Scottish folk songs and when he bought Abbotsford on the Tweed in the suburbs of Edinburgh in 1811, he was already very wealthy and successful at age 40,