Fiction · 1821
The Ayrshire Legatees
Or, The Pringle Family
The Ayrshire Legatees, first published in 1821, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Chapter I — The Departure
- Letter I
- Letter II
- Letter III
- Chapter II — The Voyage
- Letter IV
- Letter V
- Chapter III — The Legacy
- Letter VI
- Letter VII
- Chapter IV — The Town
- Letter VIII
- Letter IX
- Letter X
- Letter XI
- Chapter V — The Royal Funeral
- Letter XII
- Letter XIII
- Letter XIV
- Letter XV
- Chapter VI — Philosophy and Religion
- Letter XVI
- Letter XVII
- Letter XVIII
- Letter XIX
- Letter XX
- Chapter VII — Discoveries and Rebellions
- Letter XXI
- Letter XXII
- Letter XXIII
- Letter XXIV
- Chapter VIII — The Queen’s Trial
- Letter XXV
- Letter XXVI
- Letter XXVII
- Letter XXVIII
- Chapter IX — The Marriage
- Letter XXIX
- Letter XXX
- Letter XXXI
- Letter XXXII
- Chapter X — The Return
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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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