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John Galt
1779 - 1839
John Galt
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Primary

The Ayrshire legatees (1820),

Sir Andrew Wylie, (1820)
The Provost, (1820)

The Gathering of the West, (1820)

The Entail (1820),

The Steamboat (1821)

Annals of the parish (1821),

Ringan Gilhaize (1823)

The Last of the lairds (1826 )

Lawrie Todd (1830)

Life of Byron, (1830)
Bogle Corbet (1831)

The Member

The Radical (1832)

The Member: An Autobiography (1833)

Recent Editions

Annals of the Parish, The Ayrshire Legatees, and The Provost John Galt, introduced by Ian Campbell, Saltire Society, Edinburgh (2002)

The Member: An Autobiography John Galt, The Mercat Press (1985)

The Member and The Radical John Galt et al, Canongate Classics, Canongate (1996)

The Entail or The Lairds of Grippy John Galt, Oxford University Press (1970)

The Last of the Lairds John Galt, Chatto and Windus (1998)

Secondary

John Galt (Scottish Writers Series) P.H. Scott, The Mercat Press (1985)

John Galt: The Life of a Writer Ian Alistair Gordon , University of Toronto Press (1972)

John Galt 1779 – 1979 ed Christopher A Whatley (Edinburgh 1979)

JOHN GALT Scottish Literary Journal 8 no 1 (May 1981)

Online texts


www2.arts.gla.ac.uk/SESLL/STELLA/STARN/prose/GALT/contents.htm

Reformers and Radicals
Robert Burns
John Galt
George Douglas Brown
Hugh MacDiarmid
Hamish Henderson
William McIlvanney
Tom Leonard
Liz Lochhead
James Kelman