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Writers’ Museum chronicles Scotland’s literary giants

A look into the lives of Scotland’s scribes

By Hilary Nangle

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  February 19, 2012

Detour off The Royal Mile down Lady Stair’s Close, one of Edinburgh’s medieval pedestrian alleys, and step into Scotland’s literary heritage. The Writers’ Museum, housed in the early-17th-century Lady Stair’s House, immerses visitors in the lives of Robert Burns (1759-1796), Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). In addition to manuscripts, original illustrations, and first-edition books, displays pair ephemera and artifacts with quotations and tales.

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