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Waverley, Surrey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (155 words) |
 | Waverley is a local government district with borough status in Surrey, England. |
| Waverley neighbours the boroughs of Guildford and Mole Valley in Surrey, and the counties of West Sussex and Hampshire. |
| Waverley is a Wealden borough, bounded to the north by the Hog’s Back section of the North Downs. |
| Waverley (1121 words) |
| Work on Waverley was delayed by Scott's efforts to resolve his financial affairs (see Financial hardship), by negotiations with Constable over Scott's last major poetic work The Lord of the Isles, and by work on Abbotsford. |
| Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). |
| Waverley's faults, deriving from a creaking, hastily constructed plot, were redeemed by the force of its characterization and vividness of its descriptive passages. |
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