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Title: Guy Mannering
Author: Walter Scott
Year of Publication: 1815 (19th century)
Type: Novel
Genre: Adventure/Thriller, Historical Fiction
Plot Summary: Harry Bertram, an 18th century heir to an estate in Dumfriesshire, is the victim of a wicked lawyer’s plot to gain control of the inheritance. Ignorant of his parentage, he grows up abroad and serves with distinction in India before returning to Scotland. Here his malefactors plot again to silence him before he can reclaim what is rightfully his. Wild and desolate Liddesdale is the home background of Dandy Dinmount, a character based on a real figure called Willie Elliot who lived at Millburn on the Hermitage Water. The character of Meg Merrillies, an friend of Bertram in his childhood, is said to have been based on that of Jean Gordon, wife of the gypsy ‘king’ Patrick Faa of Kirk Yetholm (7 miles south-east of Kelso). Faa is also the surname of Philip Pullman’s ‘king of the ‘gyptians’ in Northern Lights (1994).
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014043657X
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Home | Title detail page
Title: Guy Mannering
Author: Walter Scott
Year of Publication: 1815 (19th century)
Type: Novel
Genre: Adventure/Thriller, Historical Fiction
Plot Summary: Harry Bertram, an 18th century heir to an estate in Dumfriesshire, is the victim of a wicked lawyer’s plot to gain control of the inheritance. Ignorant of his parentage, he grows up abroad and serves with distinction in India before returning to Scotland. Here his malefactors plot again to silence him before he can reclaim what is rightfully his. Wild and desolate Liddesdale is the home background of Dandy Dinmount, a character based on a real figure called Willie Elliot who lived at Millburn on the Hermitage Water. The character of Meg Merrillies, an friend of Bertram in his childhood, is said to have been based on that of Jean Gordon, wife of the gypsy ‘king’ Patrick Faa of Kirk Yetholm (7 miles south-east of Kelso). Faa is also the surname of Philip Pullman’s ‘king of the ‘gyptians’ in Northern Lights (1994).
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014043657X
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009