To: AnAmericanMother
I haven’t read all of Scott’s novels but I noticed he has a tendency to treat some of the despised levels of society with empathy.
The Jews in Ivanhoe and the Gypsies in Quentin Durward. I am sure I read that a lot of his work was simply to pay off debts.
221 posted on
02/03/2014 5:24:33 PM PST by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: yarddog
Scott had bad luck with a publishing company he invested in. It went bust, and rather than file bankruptcy he promised to pay off his creditors and went to work writing like mad.
He paid off every dime, but it killed him.
250 posted on
02/03/2014 6:28:57 PM PST by
AnAmericanMother
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