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The Betrothed by Walter Scott; J. B. Ellis; J. H. Alexander; David Hewitt is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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## Find Out What Scott Really Wrote Going back to the original manuscripts, a team of scholars has uncovered what Scott originally wrote and intended his public to read before errors, misreadings and expurgations crept in during production. ## The Edinburgh Edition offers you: * A clean, corrected text * Textual histories * Explanatory notes * Verbal changes from the first-edition text * Full glossaries ## Title Description Set at the time of the Third Crusade (1189–92), **The Betrothed** is the first of Scott's Tales of the Crusaders. The betrothed is Eveline, daughter of a Norman noble, who is a victim of the Crusade in that her intended husband is required by the Church to fulfil his vow to join the war and departs for three years. The full horror of an arranged marriage, and of being a possible prize as men seek to gain possession of her is vividly realised: the heroine is never free; her fate is always determined by the agency of men. Set on the Marches of Wales, it is not just men but differing cultures that strive for mastery over her. __The Betrothed__ is a problem novel: as Scott was writing it, he himself was arranging the marriage of his elder son. It is a problem novel

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Author

Walter Scott; J. B. Ellis; J. H. Alexander; David Hewitt

Publisher

Edinburgh University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780748628346

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Adventure Stories & Action

Rating

3.76 / 5 (2,971 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14