Walter Scott's Waverley, his first prose fiction…
July 1814 CE
Set during the time of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart, known as "Bonnie Prince Charlie", the book will become so popular that Scott's later novels will be advertised as being "by the author of Waverley".
A young English dreamer and soldier, Edward Waverley, is sent to Scotland that year.
He journeys north from his aristocratic family home, Waverley-Honour, in the south of England, first to the Scottish Lowlands and the home of family friend Baron Bradwardine, then into the Highlands and the heart of the rebellion and its aftermath.
Scott's series of works on similar themes written during the same period will become collectively known as the "Waverley Novels".
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