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Hamilton, C. J. In her Women writers ser 1, 1892. Ch 14.
Douglas, G. In his Blackwood group, [1897].
Memoir and correspondence of Susan Ferrier 1782–1854. Ed J. A.
Doyle 1898, 1929.
Gwynn, S. Miss Ferrier. Macmillan’s Mag Apr 1899.
Johnson, R. B. In his Women novelists, [1918].
Grant, A. Susan Ferrier of Edinburgh: a biography. Denver 1957.
Parker, W. M. Susan Ferrier and John Galt. 1965.
Blain, Clements and Grundy (ed). The feminist companion to literature
in English. 1990. [pp]
James Baillie Fraser 1783–1856
Bibliographies
Sadleir, M. In his XIX century fiction: a bibliographical record, 2
vols 1951.
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Journal of a tour through part of the Himā lāmountains and to the
sources of Jumna and Ganges. 1820.
Narrative of a journey into Khorasan 1821–2 including accounts of
countries NE of Persia. 1825.
Travels and adventures in the Persian provinces on the southern
banks of the Caspian Sea. With notices on the geology and commerce
of Persia. 1826.
The Kuzzilbash: a tale of Khorasan. 3 vols 1828. Anon.
The Persian adventurer: being the sequel of the Kuzzilbash. 3 vols
1830.
The Highland smugglers, by the author of Adventures of a
Kuzzilbash. 3 vols 1832.
Tales of the Caravanserai: the Khan’s tale. 1833, Philadelphia 1833,
London 1850.
An historical and descriptive account of Persia including descriptions
of Afghanistan and Beloochistan. 1834, New York 1836,
1842, London 1843.
Narrative of the residence of the Persian princes in London in 1835
and 1836, with an account of their journey from Persia and subsequent
adventures. 2 vols 1838, 1838.
A winter’s journey (Tâtar) from Constantinople to Tehran, with
travels through various parts of Persia, etc. 2 vols 1838.
Travels in Koordistan, Mesopotamia, etc . . .. 2 vols 1840.
Mesopotamia and Assyria from the earliest ages to the present
time . . .. Edinburgh and London 1842, New York 1842, 1845,
Edinburgh 1846.
Alle Neemroo, the Buchtiaree adventurer: a tale of Louristan. 3 vols
1842.
The dark falcon: a tale of the Attruck. 4 vols 1844.
Military memoir of Lieut-Col James Skinner . . . and several personages
in the service of the native powers in India. 2 vols 1851.
Fraser was a regular contributor to Blackwood’s Mag 1829–38.
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Archer, M. and T. Falk. India revealed: the art and adventures of
James and William Fraser 1802–35. 1989.
John Galt 1779–1839
NLS contains many letters, and Galt’s mss of The howdie, The last of the
lairds, and Ringan Gilhaize. Other mss (largely unpbd) are in National
Archives of Canada, Ottawa; Archives of Ontario, Toronto; Public Record
Office; Scottish Record Office; and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland,
Belfast. The mss poems once in the James Watt Library, Greenock, are missing.
Minor holdings of letters and mss are in BL, Bodleian, Derbyshire County Lib,
Harvard, HRHRC, and in the libs of the univ of Toronto, Edinburgh and
Guelph (Ontario). Harriet Pigott collected ms material for A life of Galt in
1838, now in Bodleian. For other holdings, see N. M. Whistler’s unpbd 1992
Univ of Cambridge PhD dissertation John Galt and the New World.
Pierce Egan | John Galt
Bibliographies
Lumsden, H. The bibliography of John Galt. Records of Glasgow
Bibl Soc 9 1931.
Booth, B. A. A bibliography of John Galt. BB 16 1936.
Gordon, I. A. John Galt: the life of a writer. Edinburgh 1972.
Whistler, N. M. John Galt and the New World. Unpbd PhD diss,
Univ of Cambridge 1992.
The fullest bibliography is in Whistler. An updated bibliography is in preparation
by T. Sauer, Univ of Guelph. The national union catalogue for pre–1956
imprints contains much additional information, especially about Amer edns.
Collections
Colls of Galt’s works contain only a very small proportion of his literary
output. Galt used many publishers, but one, William Blackwood, kept control
of Galt’s best-known fictions against Galt’s wishes, making a proper contemporary
col of his works unfeasible.
Blackwood’s standard novels. Ed D. M. Moir, 4 vols 1841–3. Vol 1
Annals of the parish, The Ayrshire legatees; vol 2 The provost,
The steam-boat, The omen; vol 3 Sir Andrew Wylie; vol 4 The
entail. Regularly rptd (see M. Sadleir, Nineteenth century fiction,
vol 2); rptd in 4 vols 1907.
Works. Ed D. S. Meldrum and S. R. Crockett, illustr J. Wallace, 8 vols
Edinburgh and Boston 1895. This edn re-edited by D. S. Meldrum
and W. Roughead with the addition of Ringan Gilhaize, 10 vols
Edinburgh 1936.
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For contemporary reviews of individual works, see I. A. Gordon, 1972; William
S. Ward, Literary reviews in British periodicals 1798–1820 A bibliography,
2 vols New York and London 1972, and Literary Reviews in British
periodicals 1821–1826 A bibliography, New York and London 1977 (Ward
lists 126 reviews of Galt’s works); and F. H. Lyell, A study of the novels of
John Galt, 1942. The earliest available reviews of most works are included in
the list that follows, along with a few especially important reviews, and
reviews not in Ward or Lyell.
The posthumous 1841–3 Blackwood edn determined the text of many of the
major Galt fictions. Most readers were unaware that the editor D. M. Moir
had silently introduced numerous deviations from the original texts as
proofed by Galt. Until comparatively recently all edns of single works presented
only texts altered by Moir. The collected edns continue to do so. Moir’s
interference reached its limit, while Galt was absent in Canada, in a bowdlerised
and reshaped The last of the lairds, 1826: see I. A. Gordon’s Plastic
surgery on a nineteenth century novel ...in Library, Sep 1977. The first
Galt novels to be rptd as Galt proofed them were Ringan Gilhaize, ed G.
Douglas 1899, and The entail, ed J. Ayscough, Oxford 1913. Annals of the
parish, ed J. Kinsley, Oxford 1967, initiated a new series of Galt titles (5 ed I. A.
Gordon 1970–85), all faithful to the original printings, and with full textual
notes. Ringan Gilhaize was edited, with textual notes, by P. J. Wilson 1984.
The battle of Largs: a Gothic poem with several miscellaneous
pieces. 1804. Anon (8 reviews for Largs listed in Ward).
Voyages and travels in the years 1809, 1810 and 1811: containing statistical,
commercial and miscellaneous observations on
Gibraltar, Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Serigo and Turkey. 1812. Quarto.
reviews: GM Feb, Mar, June 1812.
Cursory reflections on political and commercial topics as connected
with the Regent’s accession to royal authority. 1812, 1812. 99-page
pam.
The tragedies of Maddalen, Agamemnon, Lady Macbeth, Antonia
and Clytemnestra. 1812, 1812.
reviews: Brit Critic May 1814; Quart Rev Apr 1814.
The life and administration of Cardinal Wolsey. 1812, 1817,
Edinburgh 1824; ed W. Hazlitt 1846. Quarto.
review: Quart Rev Sep 1812.
Letters from the Levant: containing views of the state of society,
manners, opinions and commerce in Greece and several of the
principal islands of the archipelago. 1813.
review: Br Critic Jan 1814.
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