Papers on the Scottish capital across three centuries: Queen Mary’s Edinburgh, the beginnings of the university under Robert Rollock, King James’s farewell to Holyrood, Drummond of Hawthornden, Allan Ramsay, Lady Wardlaw and Lady Nairne, the city under the Dundas despotism, the last years of Sir Walter Scott, Carlyle’s student life and portraits of later Edinburgh men of letters.
Learned and affectionate essays by the biographer of Milton, a fine companion for any visit to Edinburgh’s Old Town. Download the free EPUB.