Author · 2 May 1779 – 11 April 1839

John Galt

A Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Because he was the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution, he has been called the first political novelist in the English language (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(novelist)>Wikipedia</a>).

Works

Annals of the parish.
1821
The entail, or, The lairds of Grippy
1823
Ringan Gilhaize
1823
The life of Lord Byron
1830
Sir Andrew Wylie of that ilk
1822
The provost
1822
The life and studies of Benjamin West, Esq., president of the Royal Academy of London, prior to his arrival in England
1817
The Ayrshire legatees
1821
Annals of the parish
1844
Lawrie Todd
1830
Bogle Corbet, or, The emigrants
1831
The last of the lairds
1826
All 40 works
The lives of the players
1831
The member
1832
The literary life and miscellanies of John Galt
1834
The works of John Galt
1968
The autobiography of John Galt
1833
The provost ; and, The last of the lairds
1896
The life and studies of Benjamin West prior to his arrival in England
1816
The bachelor's wife
1824
The spaewife
1823
All the voyages round the world
1820
The stolen child
1833
The steam-boat.
1822
Stanley Buxton
1832
tragedies of Maddalen, Agamemnon, Lady Macbeth, Antonia and Clytemnestra.
1812
Autobiography of John Galt; Volume 2
2018
The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq. president of the Royal Academy, London
1831
George the Third, his court and family
1820
The life of Benjamin West (1816-1820)
1960
Rothelan
1824
The Provost and other tales
1842
The works of John Galt
1936
Eben Erskine; or, the Traveller
1833
The omen
1825
Poems of John Galt
1954
The Radical: An Autobiography
1832
A rich man, and other stories
1925
The demon of destiny
1839
The masquerade
1954

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