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Phase One: Youth, the Law, and Narrative Verse
The world-renowned Romantic novelist, poet, editor, translator, biographer, and critic Sir Walter Scott was born in College Wynd, Edinburgh on 15 August, (a plaque at 8 Chambers Street still marks the spot).
His father (also called Walter) was a Writer to the Signet (solicitor); his mother, Anne Rutherford, the daughter of a professor of medicine. Contracting polio at 18 months of age), young Walter was unable to play with other children, so his parents sent him to his grandfather's farm in the border country to the south of the city.
For the remainder of his life, he divided his time between Edinburgh and the Borders. In the family moved to a more spacious house at 25 George Square, where Scott lived until Until the October after his eighth birthday, Scott was educated at home; in , he was enrolled at the High School of Edinburgh, but attended Kelso Grammar School during stays with his grandparents.
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