Chronicles of the Canongate

By Scott, Sir Walter

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Title:	Chronicles of the Canongate
Author:	Scott, Sir Walter
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Walter Scott, B. S. (n.d.). Chronicles of the Canongate. Retrieved from http://www.self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Excerpt: Introduction to Chronicles of the Canongate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, entitled ?The Highland Widow,? ?The Two Drovers,? and ?The Surgeon?s Daughter.? In the present volume the two first named of these pieces are included, together with three detached stories which appeared the year after, in the elegant compilation called ?The Keepsake.? ?The Surgeon?s Daughter? it is thought better to defer until a succeeding volume?

Table of Contents
Contents INTRODUCTION TO CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE. .......................................................................... 4 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................... 6 APPENDIX TO INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 19 CHRONICLES OF THE CANONGATE ..................................................................................................................... 41 THE HIGHLAND WIDOW ................................................................................................................................... 109 MR. CROFTANGRY INTRODUCES ANOTHER TALE. .................................................................................. 173 THE TWO DROVERS. .......................................................................................................................................... 176 NOTES...................................................................................................................................................................... 202 Note 1.?HOLYROOD............................................................................................................................................ 202 Note 2.?STEELE, A COVENANTER, SHOT BY CAPTAIN CREICHTON. ................................................. 205 Note 3.?IRON RASP. ............................................................................................................................................. 207 Note 4.?COUNTESS OF EGLINTON.................................................................................................................. 207 Note 5.?EARL OF WINTON. ............................................................................................................................... 209 Note 6.?MACGREGOR OF GLENSTRAE......................................................................................................... 209 NOTES TO THE HIGHLAND WIDOW. .............................................................................................................. 210 Note 7.?LOCH AWE. ............................................................................................................................................ 210 Note 8.?BATTLE BETWIXT THE ARMIES OF THE BRUCE AND MACDOUGAL OF LORN. ............. 212 Note 9.?MASSACRE OF GLENCOE. ................................................................................................................. 214 Note 10.?FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS. ............................................................................................... 216 NOTE TO THE TWO DROVERS. ........................................................................................................................ 219 Note 11.?ROBERT DONN?S POEMS..................................................................................................................... 219