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Unknown

The Great Unknown. Sir Walter Scott. So called because the Waverley Novels were at first published anonymously. It was James Ballantyne who first applied the term to the unknown novelist.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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