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The work was published in May30 under the following title: "Anne of Geierstein, or The Maiden of the Mist. By the Author of Waverley, etc. What! will the aspiring blood of Lancaster Sink in the ground? In three volumes. Edinburgh: Printed for Cadell & Co., Edinburgh; and Simpkin & Marshall, London, 1829. May 1. Weather more tolerable.
Kenilworth, Nigel, Peveril, and Woodstock, all written in the next few years, show his grasp of the romantic side of English annals; Count Robert and The Talisman show his enthusiasm for the heroic side of the Crusaders' nature; and Quentin Durward and Anne of Geierstein suggest another mine of romance which he discovered in French history.
So I caused him to be well stuffed, and gave him a guinea, rather to his poverty than to his skill and now to finish Anne of Geierstein. April 26. But not a finger did I lay on the jacket of Anne. Looking for something, I fell in with the little drama, long missing, called the Doom of Devorgoil.
The burgomaster, who was not entirely lacking in good breeding, became calmer. "Do you promise?" said he. "I promise!" "Very well walk in front." And that is how, on the night of the 29th of July, 1835, the burgomaster took captive a little red-haired man, issuing from the cavern of Geierstein.
I finished, however, a painful letter to J. Ballantyne, which I hope will have effect upon the nervous disorder he complains of. He must "awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." I walked happily and pleasantly from two o'clock till four. And now I must look to Anne of Geierstein. Hang it! it is not so bad after all, though I fear it will not be popular.
Lockhart on 8th May: "Anne of Geierstein is concluded; but as I do not like her myself, I do not expect she will be popular." As a contrast to the criticisms of the printer and publisher, and a comment upon the author's own apprehensions, the subjoined extract from a letter written by Mr. The Bee Preserver, or Practical Directions for the Management and Preservation of Hives.
Scott has described the cave with tolerable accuracy in "Anne of Geierstein," though he had not seen it himself. The cave is in the range of cretaceous limestone that runs east and west to the north-east of Marseilles, and at La Beaume Sainte reaches the height of 3450 feet.
Rokeby, Lord of the Isles, Anne of Geierstein, and a volume of fragments of Waverley, Ivanhoe, &c. I noticed that when Sir Walter was praised, Mr. Hope-Scott always spoke of his manliness. These observations may somewhat qualify the impression of an intimate friend of his later years, by whom I have been told that Mr.
Cadell has an interest in some of the Novels, amounting to one-half; but the following are entirely my own, viz.: St. Ronan's Well, 3 vols. Tales of Crusaders, 4 " First Chronicles, 2 " Anne of Geierstein, 3 " Redgauntlet, 3 " Woodstock, 3 " Second Chronicles, 3 " Count Robert, 3 " In all, twenty-four volumes, which will begin printing after Quentin Durward, and concludes the year 1831.
The Fair Maid of Perth, a year later, has been one of the most popular of all abroad, and not the least so at home; and there are critics who rank Anne of Geierstein, in 1829, very high indeed.
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