Ringan Gilhaize recounts his grandfather’s part in the Scottish Reformation and then his own sufferings as a Covenanter under the Stuart kings, when bishops were imposed, conventicles broken up by dragoons and families ruined for their faith. His voice is fierce, partisan and plain, the voice of a man who has lost almost everything.
Galt’s sympathetic answer to Scott’s Old Mortality, called here a neglected masterpiece. Download the free EPUB.