Sir Walter Scott's The Lady of the Lake

It was the poetic tour de force that turned Walter Scott into an international literary legend.

The Lady of the Lake was his best selling poem, taking the literary world by storm, it sold over 25,000 copies in the first 8 months. Queen Victoria was a fan having 38 copies of the poem in her library at Balmoral!

The poem had huge influence on the area, Ellen’s Isle on Loch Katrine is named after fair Ellen in the poem, and around the world.  It was even translated for the Mohican Indians in North America. 

The poem fell out of fashion in the 20^th century although even as late as the 1950s tourist guides in the Trossachs were being paid an extra penny a time if they could recite verses of the poem. 

Now 200 years on Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park in partnership with the Association of Scottish Literary Studies has republished the poem making it available again for the first time in decades.

The Lady of the Lake book with new illustrations and introduction is available at all good bookshops and in the visitor information centres in Callander and Aberfoyle and shop at Trossachs Pier at Loch Katrine.