The King's Highway: A Romance of the Jacobite Cause
Aug 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Edvard Munch and William Hogarth. England under William III, with the Jacobites plotting: a young man with a name he cannot use, a highwayman who is a gentleman, a smuggler's coast and a plot that reaches to the throne. James was Historiographer Royal to William IV and later British consul in Massachusetts, and wrote over a hundred novels — enough for Thackeray to parody him affectionately. The Jacobite politics here are exact. Fifty-seven plates by painters from Gainsborough to Munch follow the road, the path and the landscape that give this tale of highways and hidden loyalties its ground.
Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Thomas Gainsborough, Edvard Munch and William Hogarth. England under William III, with the Jacobites plotting: a young man with a name he cannot use, a highwayman who is a gentleman, a smuggler's coast and a plot that reaches to the throne. Jam...
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G. P. R. James (1799–1860) was an English novelist and historian. He served as British consul in Massachusetts and later in Venice while producing historical romances. His works include The King's Highway and Forest Days.
G. P. R. James (1799–1860) was an English novelist and historian. He served as British consul in Massachusetts and later in Venice while producing historical romances. His works include The King's Highway and Forest Days.
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