The loyalists: : an historical novel. /
West, Jane,1758-1852.
Stewart, Alexander Robert,1795-1850,former owner.StEdNL
London: : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row.,
1812.
A review in the British Critic in 1812 stated "The chief picture exhibted in the novel is that of a noble family depressed, first by treachery and calumny, and afterwards by all the strange calamaties of the times.". Published three years before Walter Scott's Waverley, it is sometimes asserted to have influenced his first novel. Jane Austin marvelled at Jane West's productivity: "How good Mrs West could have written such books and collected such hard words, with all her family cares, is a matter of astonishment.".
Summers, Gothic Bib.,
Bookplate of Alexander Robert Stewart (1795-1850) of Ards House, County Donegal, Ireland on the front pastedowns of all three volumes.
England London.