Redgauntlet
Redgauntlet
by Sir Walter Scott
CONTENTS.
Introduction Text Letters I - XIII Chapters I - XXIII Conclusion Notes Glossary
INTRODUCTION
The Jacobite enthusiasm of the eighteenth century, particularly during the rebellion of 1745, afforded a theme, perhaps the finest that could be selected for fictitious composition, founded upon real or probable incident. This civil war and its remarkable events were remembered by the existing generation witho ...