Sir Walter Scott

A collaborative project that creatively engages with the works of Walter Scott (1771-1832). Contact @profdanielcook.

[Prof Daniel Cook @profdanielcook]

The Dundee Review (@DundeeReview) is a twenty-first-century literary magazine for original gothic, terror, horror and fantasy fiction. Submit your stories now! We pay, and we have prizes.

https://t.co/SbfTr16fYn

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Launching today, The Dundee Review, is a twenty-first-century literary magazine for original gothic, terror, horror and fantasy fiction. Submit your stories now!

https://t.co/SbfTr16fYn

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October 2026:

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Out now from @BloomsburyBooks:

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RT @profdanielcook: Coming soon: MARY SHELLEY'S DUNDEE (art by Katy Stone)

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Source: BBC News https://t.co/7gqEVMDaM4

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Fragile letter from Mary Shelley to Walter Scott to go on display | The Herald https://t.co/1Z8KFUak0A

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Meanwhile, on Zoopla: one of Sir Walter Scott’s former properties is on the market…

https://t.co/ZEQPUrgYtk

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RT @profdanielcook: Out soon from @BloomsburyBooks
#FrankensteinRetold #Frankenstein

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Readers' reports ✅
Revised proposal ✅
Finalised contract ✅

Daniel Cook and @SharonRuston (general editors): The Oxford Complete Works of Mary Shelley, 15 volumes (Oxford University Press, 2025-35)

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I’ll be delivering the Nora Bartlett Memorial Lecture for the Scottish branch of the Jane Austen Society. Title: “Jane Austen, Mary Shelley and the Gothic Imagination”. Date: 18 October. Place: Pitbauchlie Hotel, Dunfermline.

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Meet Mary Ann Baxter, a major philanthropist and co-founder of University College, Dundee, the forerunner of @dundeeuni. The deed of endowment stated that the college should promote "the education of persons of both sexes and the study of Science, Literature and the Fine Arts". Her portrait (pictured) hangs in the university’s Dalhousie Building. I pass it most days - and each time I think of the driving message of that deed. (Oh, and Mary Shelley fans might recognise that Baxter name.)

Legend.

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Looking forward to the Dundee Book Festival @LACDundee!

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Up in the Morning Early

“Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west,
The drift is driving sairly;
Sae loud and shrill’s I hear the blast,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.

Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.

The birds sit chittering in the thorn,
A’ day they fare but sparely;
And lang’s the night frae e’en to morn,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.

Up in the morning’s no for me,
Up in the morning early;
When a’ the hills are cover’d wi’ snaw,
I’m sure it’s winter fairly.”

#BurnsNight2025

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So pleased for @PadraigMacaoidh - he very kindly provided translations for some of the Gaelic poems in this bumper collection, the first in the @OWC_Oxford series to feature Gaelic, as far as I’m aware.

https://t.co/aLCIugXI9z

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Delighted to say I've been elected as a Fellow of the @RoyalHistSoc!

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Walter Scott and Short Fiction (@EdinburghUP) is available for as little as £10.50 - what a way to celebrate #StAndrewsDay!

https://t.co/CY0XvXRBGa

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“Awful and stern the rugged entrance low’rs
That leads to Caledonia’s last retreats,
Where oft in days of yore, contending pow’rs
On the dark threshold shone in dreadful feats”
Anne Grant, ‘Sonnet’, in The Highlanders, and Other Poems (1808)

To celebrate #StAndrewsDay why not check out Scottish Poetry, 1730-1830 in the @OWC_Oxford series (available now in paperback and e-book): https://t.co/bFeyqce3x5

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Check out my guest blog post for @natlibscot, featuring original artworks by Steven Learmonth. This follows last month's roundtable discussion of Mary Shelley and the Scottish Gothic Tradition with Alastair Braidwood and Emily Alder.
https://t.co/nssxgilV42

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Bid to reintroduce readers to Scotland's 'forgotten bestseller' Sir Walter Scott - BBC News https://t.co/wfYEJFoTbb