Ambleside Online Waverly
Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels listed in the year and term in which their story corresponds with the House of Education Online's historical period studied
Year 7, Term 2
Count Robert of Paris - First Crusade
The Betrothed - Henry II.
The Talisman - Richard I.
Ivanhoe - Richard I.
Castle Dangerous - Scotch Wars
Year 7, Term 3
The Fair Maid of Perth - Scotland, early Fifteenth Century
Qentin Durward - France: Louis XI.
Anne of Geierstein - Charles the Bold, Margaret of Anjou, and c.
Year 8, Term 1
The Monastary - Melrose and District. (1550).
The Abbot - Mary, Queen of Scots A. and C. Black
Kenilworth - Elizabeth
Year 8, Term 2
The Fortunes of Nigel - Time of James I.
Year 8, Term 2-3
The Legend of Montrose - Period of Montrose and the Covenant
Year 8, Term 3
Woodstock - Commonwealth period
Peveril of the Peak - Time of Charles II.
Old Mortality - Bothwell Bridge, 1679
Year 9, Term 1
The Bride of Lammermoor - East Lothian, 1695
The Pirate - Shetland and Orkney Islands, 1700
The Black Dwarf - The Lowlands of Scotland, 1706 (Jacobites)
Year 9, Term 2
Rob Roy - The Jacobites
Heart of Midlothian - Time of George II. (Porteous Riots)
Waverley - The Jacobites
Redgauntlet - Time of George III.
Guy Mannering - Time of George III.
The Surgeon's Daughter - Fifeshire, Isle of Wight, and India (1780)
Year 9, Term 3
The Antiquary - Scotch Manners, last decade of Eighteenth Century
St. Ronan's Well - Near Firth of Forth, 181
Thanks to Judy Elliott for locating most of these links.
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