The Surgeons Daughter is part of Chronicles of the Canongate which is a collection of stories by Sir Walter Scott, published in 1827 and 1828 in the Waverley novels series. They are named after the Canongate, in Edinburgh. After his financial ruin at the beginning of 1826, Scott committed himself to writing works that would produce funds for the Trustees of James Ballantyne Co., including the massive Life of Napoleon. However, he retained the right to produce less substantial works for his own benefit, and the first result was the collection of shorter fiction known as Chronicles of the Canongate. This was in two volumes, rather than the three occupied by most of the Waverley Novels, and its disparate nature meant that it would not interfere with his official writing project. The first mention of the twovolume publication actually envisages it being totally occupied by the tale which was to be entitled The Surgeons Daughter in his diary for 12 May 1826 Robert Cadell records a proposal from Scott to write a small Eastern Tale, which he agreed to publish as part of his strategy to set up as an independent publisher after the crash which had ruined Archibald Constable, Ballantyne, Scott, and himself. In the event The Surgeons Daughter was to share the two volumes of the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate with Chrystal Croftangrys Narrative and two short stories, The Highland Widow and The Two Drovers. The Narrative and more than half of The Highland Widow were...

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