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Abbotsford:


Subject Literature » Victorian Literature

DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405151191.2007.x


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the home of Sir Walter Scott, near the town and abbey of Melrose, in the Borders area of southern Scotland. He bought the farmhouse in 1811, and greatly expanded it in a romantic baronial style. It was here that most of his major fiction was written. Charlotte visited the house during her brief Scottish holiday in July 1850. “[A]s to Melrose and Abbotsford the very names possess music and magic,” she wrote to Laetitia Wheelwright (30 July 1850). See also Melrose ; Scott, Sir Walter ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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