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Title: St Ronan's Well
Author: Walter Scott
Year of Publication: 1823 (19th century)
Type: Novel
Genre: Satire, Social Observation
Plot Summary: Story which – unusually for Scott – satirised contemporary fashionable society in the spa town of St Ronan’s (based on Innerleithen). The Cross Keys Hotel in Peebles (in Scott’s period called the Yett Inn) is a possible model for Cleikum Inn, and its landlady, Marion Ritchie, a model for Meg Dodds. The adjacent Tontine Hotel may have suggested Meg;s hated ‘Tomteen’.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 0766187845
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Home | Title detail page
Title: St Ronan's Well
Author: Walter Scott
Year of Publication: 1823 (19th century)
Type: Novel
Genre: Satire, Social Observation
Plot Summary: Story which – unusually for Scott – satirised contemporary fashionable society in the spa town of St Ronan’s (based on Innerleithen). The Cross Keys Hotel in Peebles (in Scott’s period called the Yett Inn) is a possible model for Cleikum Inn, and its landlady, Marion Ritchie, a model for Meg Dodds. The adjacent Tontine Hotel may have suggested Meg;s hated ‘Tomteen’.
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
ISBN: 0766187845
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009