diff --git a/src/scanscalar.cpp b/src/scanscalar.cpp
index 2a7afa9..064c086 100644
--- a/src/scanscalar.cpp
+++ b/src/scanscalar.cpp
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ namespace YAML
 		bool emptyLine = false, moreIndented = false;
 		int foldedNewlineCount = 0;
 		bool foldedNewlineStartedMoreIndented = false;
+        std::size_t lastEscapedChar = std::string::npos;
 		std::string scalar;
 		params.leadingSpaces = false;
 
@@ -52,6 +53,7 @@ namespace YAML
 					// eat escape character and get out (but preserve trailing whitespace!)
 					INPUT.get();
 					lastNonWhitespaceChar = scalar.size();
+                    lastEscapedChar = scalar.size();
 					escapedNewline = true;
 					break;
 				}
@@ -60,6 +62,7 @@ namespace YAML
 				if(INPUT.peek() == params.escape) {
 					scalar += Exp::Escape(INPUT);
 					lastNonWhitespaceChar = scalar.size();
+                    lastEscapedChar = scalar.size();
 					continue;
 				}
 
@@ -171,20 +174,32 @@ namespace YAML
 		// post-processing
 		if(params.trimTrailingSpaces) {
 			std::size_t pos = scalar.find_last_not_of(' ');
+            if(lastEscapedChar != std::string::npos) {
+                if(pos < lastEscapedChar || pos == std::string::npos)
+                    pos = lastEscapedChar;
+            }
 			if(pos < scalar.size())
 				scalar.erase(pos + 1);
 		}
 
 		switch(params.chomp) {
 			case CLIP: {
-				const std::size_t pos = scalar.find_last_not_of('\n');
+				std::size_t pos = scalar.find_last_not_of('\n');
+                if(lastEscapedChar != std::string::npos) {
+                    if(pos < lastEscapedChar || pos == std::string::npos)
+                        pos = lastEscapedChar;
+                }
 				if(pos == std::string::npos)
 					scalar.erase();
 				else if(pos + 1 < scalar.size())
 					scalar.erase(pos + 2);
 			} break;
 			case STRIP: {
-				const std::size_t pos = scalar.find_last_not_of('\n');
+				std::size_t pos = scalar.find_last_not_of('\n');
+                if(lastEscapedChar != std::string::npos) {
+                    if(pos < lastEscapedChar || pos == std::string::npos)
+                        pos = lastEscapedChar;
+                }
 				if(pos == std::string::npos)
 					scalar.erase();
 				else if(pos < scalar.size())
diff --git a/test/old-api/parsertests.cpp b/test/old-api/parsertests.cpp
index 3ef4195..7f80f98 100644
--- a/test/old-api/parsertests.cpp
+++ b/test/old-api/parsertests.cpp
@@ -892,6 +892,17 @@ namespace Test
 			
 			return doc.to<int>() == 5;
 		}
+        
+        bool QuotedNewline()
+        {
+            std::string input = "foo: \"\\n\"";
+			std::stringstream stream(input);
+			YAML::Parser parser(stream);
+			YAML::Node doc;
+			parser.GetNextDocument(doc);
+			
+			return doc["foo"].to<std::string>() == "\n";
+        }
 	}
 	
 	namespace {
@@ -1172,6 +1183,7 @@ namespace Test
 		RunParserTest(&Parser::NaN, "NaN", passed, total);
 		RunParserTest(&Parser::NonConstKey, "non const key", passed, total);
 		RunParserTest(&Parser::SingleChar, "single char", passed, total);
+		RunParserTest(&Parser::QuotedNewline, "quoted newline", passed, total);
 		
 		RunEncodingTest(&EncodeToUtf8, false, "UTF-8, no BOM", passed, total);
 		RunEncodingTest(&EncodeToUtf8, true, "UTF-8 with BOM", passed, total);