Which character from Sir Walter Scott's novel ‘Marmion’ gave his name to a breed of dog?
Dandie Dinmont Terrier Dandie Dinmont Terrier A Dandie Dinmont Terrier is a small Scottish dog breed in the terrier family. The breed has a very long body, short legs, and a distinctive topknot of hair on the head. They are friendly but tough, and are suitable for interaction with older children. There are no breed-specific health concerns, but they can be affected by spinal problems due to their elongated body, and the breed is affected by canine cancer at a higher than average rate. The breed is named after a fictional character in Sir Walter Scott's novel, "Guy Mannering". This character, Dandie Dinmont,
The Journal of Sir Walter Scott Burley and the stubbornness of Jeanie Deans. John Sutherland offered a dissenting view of the "Journal"'s sincerity. He thought that Scott, foreseeing eventual publication, took the opportunity to influence history's view of his financial crisis: "In these appallingly humiliating circumstances it evidently became more important than ever that he should preserve a noble image of himself "in extremis" for posterity." The Journal of Sir Walter Scott The Journal of Sir Walter Scott is a diary which the novelist and poet Walter Scott kept between 1825 and 1832. It records the financial disaster which overtook him at the beginning of 1826,