1.	Jane Austen

1.1	Northanger Abbey

1.2	Pride and Prejudice

1.3

Emma

2.	Sir Walter Scott

2.1	The Lady of the Lake

2.2

Waverley

2.3	Old Mortality

2.4

Rob Roy

2.5	The Hearth of Midlothian

2.6	Other novels

3.	Gothic novels

3.1	Matthew Gregory Lewis - The Monk

3.2	Ann Radcliffe - The Mysteries of Udolpho

3.3	Mary Shelley - Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus

"Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
- He was born in a lawyer’s family in Edinburgh, also a lawyer; he was the creator of the romantic historical novel. In his boyhood, spent at his grandfather’s farm, Scott absorbed all the elements that were used in his work: the oral tradition of the Borders, Scotland as a whole, shepherds and folklore.
- He first established himself as a writer of narrative verse. From ballad collecting he came to ballad imitation and to writing his own epics.

Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border (Zpěvy skotského pohraničí)
The Lady of the Lake
- Poems, which glorified Scotland’s scenery and history. The public, because of the patriotism, enthusiastically received all these poems.
- Later Scott seems to have realised that his poetic genius was exhausted, and he turned then to the writing of novels.

Waverley
- His first novel was published anonymously. It was an experiment, and it was a success.
- The main character is a young Englishman coming to Scotland as an officer of English army. He stands between two Scottish girls and also between the loyalty to Hanover dynasty and to Scottish Stuart Dynasty.

The Hearth of Midlothian (Srdce Edinburku)
- Here Scott chose as his theme a little known historical event: There was a prison in Edinburgh, which was called ironically The hearth of Midlothian. In this prison was imprisoned Captain Porteous because he gave order to shout on the crowd of people and so he caused the death of many inhabitants of Edinburgh. But the people came to know that English queen gave him mercy - so the people got into the prison and hung him themselves. Scott chose from this event the story of two sisters.
- It is often regarded as Scott’s best novel. Perhaps the most valuable fact about the novel is that it presents the heroism of ordinary people whose characters are more in agreement with the whole background."