Weir of Hermiston
Subtitle: an unfinished romance
By: by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Contributors: Colvin, Sidney, Sir, 1845-1927.; Elizabeth Robins Pennell Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Chatto and Windus
Published: 1896
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
Subjects: Fathers and sons -- Fiction; Country life -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Judges -- Fiction; Scotland -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In Stevenson's tale of father - son confrontation, the father, Adam Weir, is modelled on Lord Braxfield, the eighteenth-century 'hanging judge'. Weir, a 'risen man' who has married a wealthy but weak woman, is both feared and respected, not least by his own son, Archie. At a public hanging, Archie speaks out against capital punishment, knowing that it was his own father who sentenced the man.
Notes: McKay, G.L.  Stevenson, 629
Editorial note signed: S.C.