All were published anonymously. Scott denied authorship, though the matter was an open secret among his intimates, and was probably known to persons in authority when he was made a baronet in 1820. In 1820, also, he became a member of the Roxburghe Club and founded the Bannatyne Club.
In 1826 Scott went bankrupt when a publishing venture in which he was involved failed. He promised to pay the debt from future book sales and was allowed to keep his home.
Scott composed a Life of Napoleon (1827), and novels and tales such as Chronicles of the Canongate: The Two Drovers, The Highland Widow, The Surgeon’s Daughter (all, 1827), three series of Tales of a Grandfather (1828, 1829, 1830), The Fair Maid of Perth (1828), Anne of Ceierstein (1829), and Count Robert of Paris (1832). Scott’s health broke under the strain. He suffered a paralytic stroke in 1830, and a died two years later.
