The Bride of Lammermoor

The Bride of Lammermoor

Ravenswood and Lucy at the Mermaiden's Well by Charles Robert Leslie
Author	Walter Scott
Language	English, Lowland Scots
Series	Waverley Novels
Genre	Historical novel
Published	21 June 1819[1]
Publisher	Archibald Constable (Edinburgh); Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co. (London)
Publication place	Scotland
Media type	Print
Pages	269 (Edinburgh Edition, 1993)
Preceded by	The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Followed by	A Legend of the Wars of Montrose

The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819, one of the Waverley novels. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, shortly before the Act of Union of 1707 (in the first edition), or shortly after the Act (in the 'Magnum' edition of 1830). It tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose were published together anonymously as the third of Scott's Tales of My Landlord series. The story is the basis for Donizetti's 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor.