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GALT, JOHN.—This popular novelist and multifarious writer was born at Irvine, in Ayrshire, on the 2d of May, 1779, and was the son of a sea-captain, who was employed in the West India trade. The stay of young Galt in a district with which he afterwards made the world so well acquainted, was not long-continued, as his parents removed to ...
John Galt was born in Irvine in 1779, the son of a sea captain who traded with the West Indies. In 1789 the family moved to Greenock and much of Galt’s fiction draws from the localities of the ...
Jan 22, 2008 · John Galt, novelist, colonial promoter (born 2 May 1779 in Irvine, Scotland; died 11 April 1839 in Greenock, Scotland). Galt was superintendent (1826–29) of the Canada Company , a colonization company created to settle part of Upper Canada ( Ontario ). During that time, he founded the town of Guelph (1827); the town of Galt (now part of ...
John Galt. 3.13. 16 ratings2 reviews. First published in 1822, The Entail is Galt's most ambitious novel. It is a horrifying study of obsession in which a Glasgow merchant victimizes his family members one by one. "No doubt, Laird", replied Claud, "but it's a comfort to hae a frugal woman for a helpmate; but ye ken now-a-days it's no the ...
Jun 1, 2020 · John Galt, Robert P. Irvine (Editor) 4.67. 3 ratings1 review. Offers Galt’s most successful novel, a microcosm of fifty years of Scottish history John Galt’s Annals of the Parish is the first novel of the Industrial Revolution. Narrated by the minister of a rural Scottish parish, it chronicles with humour and pathos the fifty years 1760 ...
January 12, 2020. "The Provost" is a novel written in 1822 by John Galt. He was a Scottish novelist and he has been called the first "political" writer. I don't know if that's true or not, I've seen it said that he was decades before the political novels of Trollope. That may be true, but I like Trollope much better.
