The Annals of the Parish

Or, the Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder

Reading time: about 4.5 h
Length: 65,339 words · 156 pages
Structure: 51 chapters · 2 front-matter sections
Language: English
Era: Romantic

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John Galt

1779–1839 · Romantic

John Galt (1779–1839) was born in Irvine, Ayrshire, and worked as a merchant and later a colonial administrator in Upper Canada, where he founded the city of Guelph, Ontario, before returning to Scotland deep in debt from the venture. He is remembered above all for The Annals of the Parish (1821), a fictional country minister's year-by-year diary of the small social and economic changes overtaking his Ayrshire parish across the late eighteenth century — an early, influential experiment in social realism sometimes credited as a founding text of the regional novel. He wrote prolifically afterward but never matched its success. He died in Greenock, Scotland, at fifty-nine.

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