The Scottish Chiefs: William Wallace and the Fight for Scotland
Jane Porter
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 51 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Edmund John Niemann and James Webb. William Wallace from Lanark to the scaffold at Smithfield: the murder of his wife, Stirling Bridge, the betrayal, and Bruce afterwards. Porter published this in 1810, four years before Waverley, and Scott's admirers quietly credit her as his forerunner, and generations of Scottish schoolchildren learned their national story from it rather than from any historian. Fifty-one plates by painters including Frederic Leighton and Walter Crane trace the houses and landscapes that frame a story of exile and return.
Complete and unabridged, with 51 full-page plates by Edvard Munch, Edmund John Niemann and James Webb. William Wallace from Lanark to the scaffold at Smithfield: the murder of his wife, Stirling Bridge, the betrayal, and Bruce afterwards. Porter published this in 1810, four years before Waverley,...
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Jane Porter wrote The Scottish Chiefs, the William Wallace romance that Walter Scott's admirers quietly credit as a forerunner of his historical novels — she published it four years before Waverley. Napoleon is said to have banned it in France. Her earlier Thaddeus of Warsaw was translated across Europe, and she claimed, with justice, to have invented the form Scott perfected.
Jane Porter wrote The Scottish Chiefs, the William Wallace romance that Walter Scott's admirers quietly credit as a forerunner of his historical novels — she published it four years before Waverley. Napoleon is said to have banned it in France. Her earlier Thaddeus of Warsaw was translated across...
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