num_pages: 444
description: Set in 1679 during the Scottish populist rebellion we remember as the Covenanter uprising, this historical romantic novel tells the story of Henry Morton, a moderate Covenanter, torn between his love for Edith, the granddaughter of royalist Lady Margaret Bellenden, and loyalty to his countrymen's cause. Henry Morton is a hero for the people, one willing to stand up for what he believes and challenge the authority of King Charles II. His actions change the course of Scottish history.
language: English
title: Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott, Fiction, Historical, Literary, Classics
titlecomplete: Old Mortality by Sir Walter Scott, Fiction, Historical, Literary, Classics
characters: Martha Buskbody, Alison Wilson, Jenny Dennison, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, John Balfour of Burley, Elizabeth Maclure, William III of England and II of Scotland, Peter Pattieson, John Graham of Claverhouse, Silas Morton, Major Miles Bellenden of Charnwood, Goose-Gibbie, James Sharp, Archbishop of St. Andrews, Robert Paterson, Gabriel Kettledrummle, Lady Emily Hamilton, Edith Bellenden, Jedediah Cleishbotham, Lady Margaret Bellenden, Henry Morton, Neil Blane, John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale, William Cleland, Basil Olifant, Lord Evandale, Mause Headrigg, Ephraim Macbriar, Tam Dalyell of the Binns, Cuddie Headrigg, Habakkuk Mucklewrath
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, British Literature, Scotland, Literature, Classics, Novels, 19th Century, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 527
places: Tillietudlem, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Drumclog, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Lanarkshire, Scotland, Scotland, Bothwell, Lanarkshire, Scotland
series: Tales of My Landlord
publisher: Alan Rodgers Books