Old Mortality (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- First Published: 1816
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Historical
- Time of Work: 1679
- Setting: Scotland
- Principal Characters: Henry Morton, Lady Margaret Bellenden, Edith, Colonel Grahame of Claverhouse, Lord Evandale, John Balfour of Burley, Basil Olifant
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: Love or romance, Leadership, Courage, Marriage, Seventeenth century, Assassins, hit men, or contract killers, Scotland or Scottish people, Battles, Nobility
- Locales: Scotland
The Story:
Henry Morton had the misfortune of being a moderate man, a man who could see both sides of a question. During the rebellion of the Covenanters against the crown in 1679, his position became an exceedingly precarious one. His uncle and guardian was the Squire of Milnwood, by faith a Covenanter and by nature a miser, and Henry’s dead father had fought for the Covenanters at Marston Moor. The story of his family was frequently cause for comment among the cavalier gentry of the district, especially at the tower of Tillietudlem, the home of Lady Margaret Bellenden and...
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