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The Life of Lord Byron by John Galt.
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AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION
My present task is one of considerable difficulty;
but I have long had a notion that some time or another
it would fall to my lot to perform it. I approach
it, there...
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Scottish author John Galt (1779-1839) wrote extensively during the early 1800s, producing novels as well as works of drama, poetry, art criticism, and biography. He also worked as a lobbyist and found...
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Annals of the Parish (1821) was the Scottish novel that established John Galt as a major proponent of regional realism; along with books such as Mary Russell Mitford's Our Village (1824), Annals offer...
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Considering his vast and diversified literary output, as well as his colorful career as a businessman and promoter of various enterprises, it is ironic that John Galt, a Scots novelist contemporaneous...
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John Galt was born in Irvine, in the county of Ayrshire, Scotland, on 2 May 1779. His father, also named John, was master of a West Indian trading vessel; Galt described him as remarkably handsome, ea...
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