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Film

  • The Prisoner of Zenda (1937): Rupert mockingly quotes Marmion to Antoinette.
    "Oh! Woman in our Hours of Ease
    Uncertain, coy, and hard to please—
    When pain and anguish wring the brow,
    A ministering Angel, thou!"

Literature

  • Blandings Castle: Summer Lightning quotes "Marmion"'s most famous lines ("Oh what a tangled web we weave..."). Later in the same book Ronnie tries to quote the poem's other most famous lines, but all he can remember is "a ministering angel thou!".
  • Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm: Rebecca's first and middle name (Rebecca Rowena) are a reference to the two main female characters in Ivanhoe.
  • Doctor Thorne: The battle between Burley and Francis Stewart in Old Mortality is mentioned and used as a humorous comparison when two rival doctors meet.
  • The Grand Sophy: Lord Bromford quotes a line (O woman! in our hours of ease) from Marmion.
  • The Macdermots of Ballycloran: Miss Julia is compared to Di Vernon, heroine of Rob Roy.

Live-Action TV

  • Monty Python's Flying Circus: In the third season episode "A Book at Bedtime", one of the sketches is called "Spot the Looney", where TV viewers call in whenever they spot a looney in any filmed, or photo, segment. At one point, the host shows an adaptation of Ivanhoe, which is filled to the brim with looneys, and the host agrees that the "looney" in question was, in fact, Walter Scott. The camera cuts to Scott, who claims it was actually Charles Dickens who wrote it, and Dickens protests. This gets followed by a news reporter doing a documentary special on Scott, only to get interrupted by another reporter doing a different documentary.

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