Northern Laughter
Karl Miller: Macrone on Scott, 10 October 2013
The Life of Sir Walter Scott
by John Macrone, edited by Daniel Grader.
Edinburgh, 156 pp., £65, February 2013,978 0 7486 6991 2 Show More
by John Macrone, edited by Daniel Grader.
Edinburgh, 156 pp., £65, February 2013,
“... may have glimpsed the shadowy, not to say meteoric, not to say dubious presence of the publisher John Macrone, and learned of his prompt desire, after Scott’s death in September 1832, to write his Life, basing it to a large extent on rural informants. Here was the promise of a main event in the comet’s six-year visit to the Anglo-Scottish cultural ... ”
