Sir Walter Scott, was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. Many of his works remain classics and include
Ivanhoe,
Rob Roy,
Waverley,
The Heart of Midlothian and
The Bride of Lammermoor.
Tony Inglis is a retired Senior Lecturer in English, the University of Sussex.
J. H. Alexander is Reader Emeritus in English at the University of Aberdeen.
David Hewitt was formerly Regius Professor of English at the University of Aberdeen. He was Editor-in-Chief of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels, for which he edited Rob Roy (EUP, 2008), The Heart of Mid-Lothian (with Alison Lumsden; EUP, 2004), Redgauntlet (with G. A. M. Wood; EUP, 1997) and The Antiquary (EUP, 1995).
Alison Lumsden is a senior lecturer in the School of Language & Literature at the University of Aberdeen and co-director of the Walter Scott Research Centre. She was for many years research fellow and then General Editor for the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and has published on several Scottish authors including Robert Louis Stevenson, Nan Shepherd and Louis Grassic Gibbon. She is about to begin work on a scholarly edition of Scott's poetry.