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A new series of maps . . . by the ‘Rev T. Clark’. [1822?].
The universal traveller, containing the popular features and contents
of the best standard modern travels, in the four quarters of
the world. By ‘Samuel Prior’. 1822.
The entail: or the lairds of Grippy. 3 vols Edinburgh ‘1823’ [1822]
(anon), New York 1823, London 1842, 1850, 2 vols Boston 1896; ed
J. Ayscough, Oxford 1913 (WC); ed I. A. Gordon, Oxford 1984 (WC);
tr Ger 1823. Fiction.
review: Literary Gazette Dec 1822.
Ringan Gilhaize: or the covenanters. 3 vols Edinburgh 1823 (anon), 2
vols New York 1823, Glasgow [1870]; ed G. Douglas 1899, 1902; ed
P. Wilson, Edinburgh 1984. Fiction.
review: Literary Chron May 1823.
Modern geography and history . . . by the ‘Rev T. Clark’. 1823.
The spaewife: a tale of the Scottish chronicles. 3 vols Edinburgh 1823
(anon), 2 vols Philadelphia 1824, 1 vol [1880?]. Fiction.
review: Edinburgh Literary Gazette Mar 1824.
The bachelor’s wife: a selection of curious and interesting extracts.
Edinburgh 1824.
Rothelan: a romance of the English histories. 3 vols Edinburgh 1824
(anon), 2 vols New York 1825; tr Ger 1826, 1826, 1827.
review: Examiner Nov 1824.
The omen. Edinburgh ‘1826’ [1825] (anon); rptd 1842 (with The
provost and The steam-boat), New York 1844 (in The omnibus of
modern romance), 1850, 1869. Fiction.
reviews: Literary Gazette Feb 1826; Blackwood’s Mag (by Sir
Walter Scott) July 1826.
The last of the lairds: or the life and opinions of Malachi Mailings
esq of Auldbiggings. Edinburgh 1826 (anon), New York 1827;
illustr H. W. Kerr 1926. The final chapters were written by D. M.
Moir. Ed I. A. Gordon (from Galt’s ms in NLS), Edinburgh and
London 1976 (replacing Moir’s altered text). Fiction.
review: Literary Chron Dec 1826.
To shareholders of the Canada Co. 1829. Pam.
Lawrie Todd: or the settlers in the woods. 3 vols 1830, 1830, 2 vols
New York 1830, 1832, etc; ed G. Thorburn 1845, 1849 (rev), [1880?];
Melbourne [1890?]. Autobiography (G. Thorburn’s) and fiction.
Southennan. 3 vols 1830, 2 vols New York 1830. Fiction.
The life of Lord Byron. 1830, 1830, Dublin 1830, New York and
Philadelphia 1830, 1831, 1832, New York 1835, 1841, 1845, [1908]; tr
Fr 1836.
review: Literary Gazette Aug 1830.
Bogle Corbet: or the emigrants. 3 vols 1831; ed E. Waterston, Toronto
1977. Fiction.
review: Literary Gazette Apr 1831.
The lives of the players. 2 vols 1831, Boston 1831, 1 vol 1886.
review: NMM Aug 1831.
The member: an autobiography, by ‘Archibald Jobbry’. 1832, ‘1833’
[1832] (with The radical, below, as The reform); ed I. A. Gordon,
Edinburgh and London 1975, Edinburgh 1985. Fiction.
review: The Athenaeum Jan 1832.
Stanley Buxton: or the schoolfellows. 3 vols 1832, 2 vols Philadelphia
1833, Boston 1833. Fiction.
review: NMM May 1832.
The radical: an autobiography, by ‘Nathan Butt!’. 1832, ‘1833’ [1832]
(with The member, above, as The reform). Fiction.
The Canadas as they at present commend themselves to the enterprise
of emigrants, colonists and capitalists, compiled and condensed
from original documents furnished by John Galt, by
Andrew Picken. 1832, 1836.
The stolen child: a tale of the town. 1833, Philadelphia 1833.
Eben Erskine: or the traveller. 3 vols 1833, 2 vols Philadelphia 1933.
Fiction.
The Ouranoulogos: or the celestial volume. Edinburgh and London
1833. Plate by J. Martin, illustrating Galt’s story The deluge. Royal
quarto.
Autobiography. 2 vols Edinburgh 1833, Boston 1834, Philadelphia
1834.
Poems. 1833.
Stories of the study. 3 vols 1833.
The literary life and miscellanies. 3 vols 1834.
Efforts. By an invalid. Greenock 1835, London 1835. Poems.
A contribution to the Greenock calamity fund. Greenock 1835.
Poems.
Scotland delivered. Irvine, Ayrshire 1837 (anon). Poem. Attributed
to Galt on the basis of internal evidence by H. B. Timothy, see
below.
The demon of destiny and other poems. Greenock 1839.
The howdie and other tales. Ed W. Roughead, Edinburgh 1923.
A rich man and other stories. Ed W. Roughead 1925.
Poems. Ed G. H. Needler 1954.
The collected poems of John Galt, 1779–1839. Ed H. B. Timothy, 2
vols: vol 1 [London, Ontario?] 1969 (reprints pbd poems); vol 2
[Regina, Saskatchewan?] 1982.
Selected short stories. Ed I. A. Gordon, Edinburgh 1978.
Contributions to periodicals
Galt edited or helped to edit several newspapers and mags, and wrote hundreds
of contributions in many genres for numerous jnls ( for a list of his pseudonyms
etc, see Whistler, Bibliographies, above). His most frequent
appearances were in NMM (1814–32), Blackwood’s Mag (1819–36),
Fraser’s Mag (1830–7) and Tait’s Edinburgh Mag (1832–6), many indexed
in Wellesley 5. For items prior to Wellesley’s starting-point, and for appearances
in Monthly Mag (1812–34), and occasional contributions to
Philosophical Mag, GM and Literary Souvenir, see Whistler, and index
in I. A. Gordon, 1972. Whistler vol 2, section 2, pp. 1–31, identifies many contributions
not described in Lumsden, Booth, or the list of Galt’s works in Gordon.
Whistler vol 3 reproduces (mainly in facs) 23 of Galt’s pre–1809 publications,
and nearly 70 of his periodical publications on ‘New World’ matters.
Collaborative works
Galt wrote part of the biography of John Wilson prefixed to Scottish descriptive
poems, 1803. He collaborated with Henry Redhead Yorke on The lives of
the British admirals, 1814; with his brother Thomas on the play The
watch-house, 1814; and with Benjamin West on the creation of Galt’s biography
of West, 1816 and 1820. Galt contributed a biographical sketch to J. F. W.
Herschel’s edn of William Spence’s Mathematical essays, 1819. He collaborated
with other authors in works pbd by J. Souter and Sir Richard Phillips;
with Grant Thorburn, whose autobiography forms the first part of Lawrie
Todd, 1830; and with various other writers for Blackwood’s Mag. Five
stories are in A. Picken’s The club book, 3 vols 1831, all rptd in W. Hazlitt’s
Romanticist and novelist’s library, 1841; for Galt’s collaboration with J.
Martin on The Ouranoulogos, 1833, see Gordon and Whistler,
Bibliographies, above. Galt includes a story by his son Alexander in Stories
of the study, 1833 (The black pirate).
Letters
Most of Galt’s correspondence, of which many hundred letters are extant, is
unpbd. A preliminary catalogue of his letters, and a checklist of his correspondents,
is in Whistler. Some of his letters were printed in his autobiographies,
and in D. M. Moir’s Biographical memoir of 1841; those to Lady
Blessington in R. R. Madden’s Literary life and correspondence of the
Countess of Blessington, 1855, and in A. Morrison’s The Blessington
papers, 1895. An edn of the letters is planned, under the editorship of N. M.
Whistler.
Translations, editions, introductions, prefaces and
commendatory verses
Galt’s plays The word of honour, 1814, and Love, honour and interest,
1814, are translated and adapted from the Italian of C. Goldoni; Andrew of
Padua, 1820, is translated and adapted from the Italian of Abbate Furbo, and
its companion-piece The vindictive father is from the Spanish of Leandra of
Valladerras. Galt edited many plays for his Rejected or New British
Theatre 1814–15; several works for J. Souter and Sir Richard Phillips; vols 3
John Galt
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