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Plot summary. Wood-engraving by C. A. Shepperson of a scene from Scott's novel Guy Mannering, University of Edinburgh Collections. Guy Mannering, after leaving Oxford, is travelling alone in southwestern Scotland, on the coast of the Solway Firth.
- Walter Scott
- 1815
Guy Mannering, a young English gentleman traveling in Scotland, stops at the home of Godfrey Bertram, Laird of Ellangowan, on the night the first Bertram child, a boy, is born.
Overview: The story begins with a young English gentleman named Guy Mannering, who stumbles upon a desolate moor while travelling through Scotland. He seeks shelter at Ellangowan, a decaying estate owned by the good-natured but ineffectual Godfrey Bertram.
Dive deep into Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
Dec 19, 2011 · Synopsis. The hero, Harry Bertram, son of the Laird of Ellangowan, is kidnapped as a boy by the smuggler Dirk Hatteraick and carried off to Holland. Hatteraick is acting in league with the Bertrams' lawyer, Gilbert Glossin, who hopes to acquire the family property in the absence of a male heir.
A novel by Sir W. Scott, published 1815. The story, set in the 18th cent., narrates the fortunes of Harry Bertram, son of the laird of Ellangowan in Dumfriesshire, who is kidnapped as a child and carried to Holland at the instigation of a dishonest lawyer, Glossin, who hopes to acquire the Ellangowan estate on easy terms if there is no male heir.
guy mannering. The second essay in fiction of an author who has triumphed in his first romance is a doubtful and perilous adventure. The writer is apt to become self-conscious, to remember the advice of his critics,--a fatal error,--and to tremble before the shadow of his own success.
