Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
Her prize-winning, foundational scholarly edition and a central example of her work on Walter Scott.
Author guide
Claire Lamont Books in Order
Claire Lamont (1942–2023) was a British literary scholar and Emeritus Professor of English Literature at Newcastle University. She specialized in Jane Austen and Walter Scott, producing influential scholarly editions of Sense and Sensibility, Waverley, The Heart of Midlothian, and Chronicles of the Canongate. She also co-edited works on Romantic literature and the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels.
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Romanticism's Debatable Lands
A representative co-edited collection covering her broader scholarship on Romantic literature.
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Books by series
scholarly-edition · completed
Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels
A complete critical edition of Walter Scott's novels and related fiction, published by Edinburgh University Press.
- 20 Chronicles of the Canongate
Book 20 · scholarly-edition · 2000
- 25 Walter Scott: Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Waverley to A Legend of the Wars of Montrose
Book 25a · scholarly-edition · 2012
- 26 Walter Scott: Introductions and Notes from the Magnum Opus: Ivanhoe to Castle Dangerous
Book 25b · scholarly-edition · 2012
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Edited works (3)
- Shakespearean Continuities: Essays in Honour of E. A. J. Honigmann
edited-collection · 1997
- A Rossetti Family Chronology
edited-reference · 2007
- Romanticism's Debatable Lands
edited-collection · 2007
Other (4)
- Sense and Sensibility
scholarly-edition · 1970
"Meanwhile Elinor, always sensitive to social convention, is struggling to conceal her own romantic disappointment, even from those closest to her. Through their parallel experience of love - and its threatened loss - the sisters learn…
- Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since
scholarly-edition · 1981
- Waverley: Notes
literary-study · 1981
- The Heart of Midlothian
scholarly-edition · 1982
"The Heart of Mid-Lothian is precisely focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737. Yet it is a chronicle - Scott's only chronicle - which spans the eighty years of the life of David Deans, whose…
Frequently asked questions about Claire Lamont
Who was Claire Lamont?
Claire Lamont was a British literary scholar and Emeritus Professor of English Romantic Literature at Newcastle University. She was born in 1942 and died in 2023, aged 81.
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What was Claire Lamont’s academic career?
She studied English at the University of Edinburgh, worked at Leeds University and Oxford, and joined Newcastle University as a lecturer in 1971. She later became Professor and Emeritus Professor of English Romantic Literature.
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What subjects did Claire Lamont specialize in?
Her scholarship focused on English and Scottish literature of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, especially Jane Austen and Walter Scott. Her research also addressed writers including Johnson, Boswell, Burns, John Clare, and Wordsworth.
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Who influenced Claire Lamont’s scholarship?
At Somerville College, Oxford, Claire Lamont was guided by the Austen and Scott scholar Mary Lascelles. Her Anglo-Scottish family background and early archival work on the Fraser Tytler papers also helped shape her interests.
Did Claire Lamont win any major awards?
Yes. She won the British Academy’s Rose Mary Crawshay Prize in 1983 for her edition of Walter Scott’s Waverley, and she was later made an Honorary Fellow of the Association for Scottish Literature.
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