Fiction · 1822
The Provost
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Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter I — The Forecast
- Chapter II — A Kithing
- Chapter III — A Dirgie
- Chapter IV — The Guildry
- Chapter V — The First Contested Election
- Chapter VI — The Failure of Bailie M’lucre
- Chapter VII — The Bribe
- Chapter VIII — On the Choosing of a Minister
- Chapter IX — An Execution
- Chapter X — A Riot
- Chapter XI — Policy
- Chapter XII — The Spy
- Chapter XIII — The Meal Mob
- Chapter XIV — The Second Provostry
- Chapter XV — On the Improvement of the Streets
- Chapter XVI — About the Repair of the Kirk
- Chapter XVII — The Law Plea
- Chapter XVIII — The Suppression of the Fairs
- Chapter XIX — The Volunteering
- Chapter XX — The Clothing
- Chapter XXI — The Pressgang
- Chapter XXII — The Wig Dinner
- Chapter XXIII — Three the Death of Mr M’lucre
- Chapter XXIV — The Windy Yule
- Chapter XXV — The Subscription
- Chapter XXVI — Of the Public Lamps
- Chapter XXVII — The Plainstones
- Chapter XXVIII — The Second Crop of Volunteers
- Chapter XXIX — Captain Armour
- Chapter XXX — The Trades’ Ball
- Chapter XXXI — The Bailie’s Head
- Chapter XXXII — The Town Drummer
- Chapter XXXIII — An Alarm
- Chapter XXXIV — The Country Gentry
- Chapter XXXV — Tests of Success
- Chapter XXXVI — Retribution
- Chapter XXXVII — The Duel
- Chapter XXXVIII — An Interlocutor
- Chapter XXXIX — The Newspaper
- Chapter XL — The School-House Scheme
- Chapter XLI — Benefits of Neutrality
- Chapter XLII — The New Member
- Chapter XLIII — My Third Provostry
- Chapter XLIV — The Church Vacant
- Chapter XLV — The Stramash in the Council
- Chapter XLVI — The New Councillors
- Chapter XLVII — The Resignation
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About the author
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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