page_title: The Heart of Midlothian
section_title: Characters
hierarchical_section_title: The Heart of Midlothian / Characters
context_page_description: The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the author was given as "Jedediah Cleishbotham, Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh". The main action, which takes place between September 1736 and May 1737, is set in motion by the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh and involves an epic journey from Edinburgh to London by a working-class girl to obtain a royal commutation of the death penalty incurred by her sister for the alleged murder of her new-born baby.
context_section_description: Captain Porteous, officer of the Edinburgh city guard
  David Deans, a dairy-farmer
  Jeanie Deans, later Butler, his older daughter
  Effie Deans, later Lady Staunton, his younger daughter
  The Whistler, Effie's son
  David Deans, Jeanie's eldest child
  The Laird of Dumbiedikes, Jeanie's admirer
  Reuben Butler, a schoolmaster
  Bartoline Saddletree, a harness-maker
  Mrs Saddletree, his wife
  Rev. Robert Staunton, Rector of Willingham
  George Staunton, alias Robertson, his son
  Andrew Wilson, a smuggler, his companion
  Meg Murdockson, George's nurse
  Madge Wildfire, her crazy daughter
  Gideon Sharpitlaw, procurator fiscal
  Jim Ratcliffe, a criminal turned jailor
  Baillie Middleburgh, a magistrate
  Mr Fairbrother, counsel for Effie
  Mrs Bickerton, landlady of the 'Seven Stars' at York
  Mrs Glass, a tobacconist
  MacCallum More, Duke of Argyle
  Mr Archibald, his groom of the chamber
  Queen Caroline
  The Countess of Suffolk
  Mrs Dutton, a dairywoman
  Duncan Knock, Captain of Knockdunder
  Donacha Dhu na Dunaigh, a Highland robber
caption: "Arrangement in Yellow and Gray": Effie Deans by James McNeill Whistler
exif: {"Image Make": "Panasonic", "Image Model": "DMC-FS30", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "180", "Image YResolution": "180", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows", "Image DateTime": "2013:11:29 11:11:54", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image PrintIM": "[80, 114, 105, 110, 116, 73, 77, 0, 48, 50, 53, 48, 0, 0, 14, 0, 1, 0, 22, 0, ... ]", "Image Tag 0xC6D2": "[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... ]", "Image Tag 0xC6D3": "[0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, ... ]", "Image Padding": "[]", "Image ExifOffset": "2728", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "5438", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "2324", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/8", "EXIF FNumber": "18/5", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "800", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0221", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2013:11:24 11:32:01", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2013:11:24 11:32:01", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "86/25", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "61/10", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "852", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "1785", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "5312", "EXIF SensingMethod": "One-chip color area", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "34", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "High gain up", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Soft", "EXIF Sharpness": "Soft", "EXIF Padding": "[]", "EXIF OffsetSchema": "3756"}