GENERAL APPENDIX I. TABLE OF THE WAVERLEY NOVELS IN THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER THE MIDDLE AGES Count Robert OF PARIS relates to the period, about 1098 A.D., when the Crusaders under Godfrey of Bouillon were before Constantinople. William Rufus was then King of England, and Constantinople was under Alexius Comnenus, Emperor of Greece. THE BETROTHED opens in the autumn of 1187, when Henry II was King of England, and closes in the summer of 1192. The scene of action is the border of England and Wales and the city of Gloucester. THE TALISMAN. The action of the story takes place in the Syrian Desert near the Dead Sea, during a thirty days' truce between the followers of the Cross and those of the Crescent, in 1191. Richard I of England was the leader of the Crusaders. IVANHOE Covers a period of about two weeks in the summer of 1194, after the return of Richard I from imprisonment in Austria. The scene is Yorkshire and Leicestershire. CASTLE DANGEROUS is a tale of the wars between Edward I of England and Bruce of Scotland. The action takes place in Douglasdale, Kirkcudbrightshire, in March, 1307. THE FAIR MAID OF PERTH is a story of Perth and its vicinity about 1402, when Henry IV was King of England and Robert III King of Scotland. THE RENAISSANCE QUENTIN DURWARD deals with events in and around Liège in 1468, the time of Louis XI of France and Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. ANNE OF GEIERSTEIN. This romance of Switzerland and Burgundy begins in 1474 and ends in 1477, soon after the battle of Nancy, where Charles the Bold was killed. THE MONASTERY is a story of the Border Country, especially near Melrose Abbey, in 1547-57, under Mary Queen of Scots. THE ELIZABETHAN PERIOD THE ABBOT, a sequel to THE MONASTERY, relates to the history of Queen Mary of Scotland from her imprisonment in Lochleven Castle till her flight into England, 1567-68. KENILWORTH. The date of the story is 1575, in the reign of Elizabeth. The principal incidents occur at Kenilworth Castle and in London, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, and Devonshire. THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY THE FORTUNES OF NIGEL. The action of this romance takes place in the spring, about 1618, almost wholly in London and Greenwich. James I was then King of England. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. The time is 1644-45, in the reign of Charles I, and the place the Highlands of Scotland. WOODSTOCK; OR, THE CAVALIER, 'a Tale of the Year 1651.' The main action occupies about a fortnight, but the closing incident does not occur till 1660. Woodstock, Windsor, and the court of Charles II at Brussels are the chief scenes. PEVERIL OF THE PEAK relates mainly to the period of the pretended Popish Plot, 1678, in the reign of Charles II, but opens some twenty years earlier. The scenes are laid in Derbyshire, the Isle of Man, and London. OLD MORTALITY is a tale of the Covenanters' insurrection against Charles II. It covers the years 1679-89, from the defeat of Claverhouse at Drumclog to the fight at Killiecrankie. THE PIRATE. The time of this story is the last years of the seventeenth century, and the place the Zetland (Shetland) and Orkney Islands. THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY THE BLACK DWARF is a story of the Scottish Border during Queen Anne's reign, about 1708. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. The tragic action of this story takes place in East Lothian, probably in 1709-11, under Queen Anne. ROB ROY is a tale of the Jacobite rebellion of 1715-16, when George I was king, and the principal scenes are Northumberland, Glasgow, and the mountains of Loch Lomond. THE HEART OF MIDLOTHIAN opens with the Porteous Riot in Edinburgh, 1736, and closes in Argyleshire in 1751. George II was king. WAVERLEY deals with the Jacobite insurrection of 1745, led by Charles Edward Stuart, in the reign of George II. The chief scene of action is the highlands of Perthshire. THE SURGEON'S DAUGHTER. The period of this story is about 1750-75, and the scene shifts from one of the midland counties of Scotland to the Isle of Wight, Madras, and Bangalore. GUY MANNERING, of which Galloway is the chief scene of action, covers the years 1760-82. THE HIGHLAND WIDOW. The main incidents occur about 1765, in Argyleshire and Dumbarton. REDGAUNTLET. The events of this Jacobite story occupy less than two months in the summer of 1766. The scene is laid principally in Edinburgh, Dumfries, and the Solway Firth. THE TWO DROVERS is a Perthshire story of the last part of the eighteenth century. THE ANTIQUARY belongs to the last years of the eighteenth century, and its incidents take place mainly in Edinburgh and Forfarshire. ST. RONAN'S WELL is a story of the early nineteenth century in Scotland. |