ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how far Scott could go in conceding women's right, and in some cases ability, to engage in heroic or defensive physical combat. It compares his practice with that of a variety of literary predecessors, of a contemporary writer, Thomas Love Peacock, and of his publishers and Lockhart, who converted his text into a travesty of his intent ion and major interest without his knowledge or permission, as demonstrated most trenchantly by Kurt Gamerschlag, and by J. H. Alexander as the EEWN editor. Scott's writing tends to display a sharp difference in attitude depending on whether the woman can be seen to be of a class appropriate to reclassify her as chivalrous. Scott's treatment of the Robin Hood story in Ivanhoe keeps the outlaws much more on the margins and ignores the woman warrior theme. The warrior woman theme is no more than an appendage to Castle Dangerous.
