slauderdale’s Reviews > Three Gothic Novels: The Castle of Otranto, Vathek, The Vampyre, and a Fragment of a Novel > Status Update

I find Scott’s comments on the substitution (my word, not his) of Isabella for Matilda interesting, and wonder if it influenced certain reflections at the end of “Ivanhoe”: “Yet it would be enquiring too curiously to ask, whether the recollection of Rebecca’s beauty and magnanimity did not recur to his mind more frequently than the fair descendant of Alfred [Rowena] might altogether have approved.”