| Front | the Bride of Lammermoor |
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| Back | a novel Scott 1818 third series of Tales of my landlord it tells the story of the Master of Ravenswood 's unhappy and eventually tragic love for Lucy Ashton, daughter of a family with whom he has an inherited feud. lady Ashton , Lucy's mother, opposes the romance and tricks her daughter into marriage with the Laird of Bucklaw by convincing her that Ravenswood has abandoned her he returns after the wedding to demand vengeance , she becomes insane and murders her husband The Bride of Lammermoor is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1819. The novel is set in the Lammermuir Hills of south-east Scotland, and tells of a tragic love affair between young Lucy Ashton and her family's enemy Edgar Ravenswood. Scott indicated the plot was based on an actual incident. The Bride of Lammermoor and A Legend of Montrose were published together anonymously as the third of Scott's Tales of My Landlord series. The story is the basis for Donizetti's 1835 opera Lucia di Lammermoor |
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