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The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh".
- Walter Scott
- 1818
The Heart of Midlothian, novel of Scottish history by Sir Walter Scott, published in four volumes in 1818. It is often considered to be his finest novel. The Old Tolbooth prison in Edinburgh is called “the heart of Midlothian,” and there Effie Deans is held on charges of having murdered her.
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Dec 19, 2011 · A mob, led by Staunton, storm the Old Tolbooth Prison (known as 'The Heart of Midlothian'), seize Porteous and lynch him. Staunton had also hoped to liberate his lover Effie Deans who is awaiting trial for child-murder, but she refuses to escape.
Discussion of themes and motifs in Sir Walter Scott's The Heart of Midlothian. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of The Heart of Midlothian so you can...
Scott’s novelistic portrait of Scotland as a country, The Heart of Midlothian deals with the east and the west of Scotland, with Highlands and Lowlands. The novel presents the people of...
Nov 19, 2020 · In “The Heart of Mid-Lothian” Scott set himself to draw his own people at their best. He had a heroine to his hand in Helen Walker, “a character so distinguished for her undaunted love of virtue,” who, unlike Jeanie Deans, “lived and died in poverty, if not want.”
The Porteous Riot of 1736 in Edinburgh’s famous Old Tolbooth prison, which was commonly called “the heart of Midlothian,” sets the action on its course. The story, however, is not one of...
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