num_pages: 491
description: Waverley is set during the Jacobite Rising of 1745, which sought to restore the Stuart dynasty in the person of Charles Edward Stuart (or 'Bonnie Prince Charlie'). It relates the story of a young dreamer and English soldier, Edward Waverley, who was sent to Scotland in 1745. He journeys North from his aristocratic family home, Waverley-Honour, in the south of England (alleged in an English Heritage notice to refer to Waverley Abbey in Surrey) first to the Scottish Lowlands and the home of family friend Baron Bradwardine, then into the Highlands and the heart of the 1745 Jacobite uprising and aftermath.
language: English
title: Waverley
titlecomplete: Waverley
characters: Donald Bean Lean, Flora McIvor, Rose Bradwardine, Evan Dhu Maccombich, Edward Waverley, Fergus Mac-Ivor Vich Ian Vohr, Flora Mac-Ivor, Davie Gellatley
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, British Literature, Historical, Scotland, Historical Fiction, Literature, Adventure, Novels
ratings_count: 5517
places: Scotland
publisher: Penguin Books Ltd