Miscellany
Waverley Station in Edinburgh takes its name from the novel, as does the Waverley Line between Edinburgh and Carlisle, and the paddle steamer Waverley. The Scott Monument is near the station. Waverly Place in Greenwich Village, New York City, was named for the novel in 1833, a year after Scott's death, though the name was misspelled. The suburban community of Waverley, Nova Scotia was also named after the novel by founder Charles Pillsbury Allen in 1847. Waverly, Nebraska, Waverly, Tioga County, New York and Waverly Township, Pennsylvania are similarly misspelled tributes to the novels.
The Waverley Pen made by MacNiven & Cameron of Edinburgh was named after the novel, and was marketed from 1864.
The proposition Scott is the author of Waverley is one of the examples whose meaning Bertrand Russell studied in his paper "On Denoting".
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