The Antiquary (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- First Published: 1816
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fiction of manners
- Time of Work: Late eighteenth century
- Setting: Scotland
- Genres: Long fiction, Fiction of manners
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Tricks, Supernatural, Eighteenth century, Lower classes, Illegitimacy, Scotland or Scottish people, Nobility
- Locales: Scotland
Characters Discussed
Lovel (Major Neville), a wealthy young man of undetermined background who is forced to fight a duel and then go into hiding because he thinks he has mortally wounded his opponent. By a stroke of luck, he overhears a conversation that helps him act to save the fortune of the nobleman whose daughter, Isabella, he wishes to marry. Because of his uncertain parentage, she gives him no encouragement. Eventually, however, he is proved to be an aristocrat. His proper background established, he and Isabella are married.
Edie Ochiltree, a beggar and Lovel’s...
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