Waverley Novels

The Waverley Novels are a long series of books by Sir Walter Scott. For nearly a century they were among the most popular and widely-read novels in all of Europe. Because he did not publicly acknowledge authorship until 1827, they take their name from Waverley (1814), which was the first. The later books bore the words "by the author of Waverley" on their title pages.

More loosely, the term is used to refer to all of his novels. The Tales of my Landlord series was not advertised as "by the author of Waverley" and thus is not always included in this list.

Order of publication

Title	Published	Main setting	Period
Waverley, or, Tis Sixty Years Since	1814	Perthshire (Scotland)	1745–1746
Guy Mannering, or, The Astrologer	1815	Galloway (Scotland)	1760-5, 1781-2
The Antiquary	1816	Angus (Scotland)	1790s
Tales of My Landlord, 1st series:
The Black Dwarf	1816	Scottish Borders	1707
The Tale of Old Mortality	1816	Southern Scotland	1679-89
Rob Roy	1818	Loch Lomond and environs (Scotland)	1715-16
Tales of my Landlord, 2nd series:
The Heart of Midlothian	1818	Edinburgh and Richmond, London	1736
Tales of my Landlord, 3rd series:
The Bride of Lammermoor	1819	East Lothian (Scotland)	1709-11
A Legend of Montrose	1819	Scottish Highlands	1644-5
Ivanhoe	1819	Yorkshire and Leicestershire (England)	1194
The Monastery	1820	Scottish Borders	1547-57
The Abbot	1820	Various in Scotland	1567-8
Kenilworth	1821	Southern England	1575
The Pirate	1822	Shetland and Orkney	late 17th century
The Fortunes of Nigel	1822	London and Greenwich (England)	1616-18
Peveril of the Peak	1822	Derbyshire, the Isle of Man, and London	1658-80
Quentin Durward	1823	Tours and Péronne (France) Liège ( Wallonia/Belgium)	1468
St. Ronan's Well	1824	Southern Scotland	1800s
Redgauntlet	1824	Southern Scotland, and Cumberland (England)	1766
Tales of the Crusaders:
The Betrothed	1825	Wales, and Gloucester (England)	1187-92
The Talisman	1825	Syria	1191
Woodstock, or, The Cavalier	1826	Woodstock and Windsor (England) Brussels, in the Spanish Netherlands	1652
Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series:
St Valentine's Day, or, The Fair Maid of Perth	1828	Perthshire (Scotland)	1396
Anne of Geierstein, or, The Maiden in the Mist	1829	Switzerland and Eastern France	1474-77
Tales of my Landlord, 4th series:
Count Robert of Paris	1831	Constantinople and Scutari (now in Turkey)	1097
Castle Dangerous	1831	Kirkcudbrightshire (Scotland)	1307

Chronological order, by setting

• 1097: Count Robert of Paris
• 1187-94: The Betrothed, The Talisman, Ivanhoe
• 1307: Castle Dangerous
• 1396: The Fair Maid of Perth
• 1468-77: Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein
• 1547-75: The Monastery, The Abbot, Kenilworth
• 1616-18: The Fortunes of Nigel
• 1644-89: A Legend of Montrose, Woodstock, Peveril of the Peak, The Tale of Old Mortality, The Pirate
• 1700-99: The Black Dwarf, The Bride of Lammermoor, Rob Roy, Heart of Midlothian, Waverley, Guy Mannering, Redgauntlet, The Antiquary
• 1800s: St. Ronan's Well

Editions

Originally printed by James Ballantyne on the Canongate in Edinburgh, brother of one of Scott's close friends, John Ballantyne ("Printed by James Ballantyne and Co. For Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh"). Some of the early editions were lavishly illustrated by George Cattermole.

The two definitive editions are the 48-volume set published between 1829 and 1833 by Robert Cadell (the "Magnum Opus"), based on previous editions, with new introductions and appendices by Scott, and the 30-volume set, based on manuscripts, published by the Edinburgh University Press and Columbia University Press in the 1990s.

Placenames

Both Waverly, Nebraska and Waverly, Tioga County, New York take their names from these novels, as does Waverley Station in Edinburgh.

Other uses of names

Many British railway locomotives were given names from the novels.

Over two thousand streets in Britain have names from titles of individual novels, with 650 from "Waverley" alone.