Set in the mid-eighteenth century in the fictitious third Jacobite rebellion,
Redgauntlet
(1824) tells of Darsie Latimer, a student of law who becomes embroiled in a plot to put Prince Charles Edward (aka, Bonnie Prince Charlie) on the British throne. The events in
never actually took place, but they are probable, and form the culmination of Scott's series of Jacobite novels.
Author Biography: Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was born and educated in Edinburgh and is the foremost Romantic novelist in the English language. Also a poet, he is credited with establishing the form of the historical novel.
Author Biography: G. A. M. Wood held posts at Yale, the University of California, and the University of Stirling, from which he is now retired. He is general editor of the Edinburgh Editions of the Waverley novels.
Author Biography: David Hewitt is professor in Scottish literature at the University of Aberdeen and editor of Scott's
The Antiquary
for Penguin Classics.