The Heart of Midlothian
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The Heart of Mid-Lothian is the seventh of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley Novels. It was originally published in four volumes on 25 July 1818, under the title of Tales of My Landlord, 2nd series, and the
The Old Tolbooth, Edinburgh
Jeanie Deans at Reuben Butler's home, aquatinta by George Maile after Anna Rimbaut-Borrel, 1841
"Arrangement in Yellow and Gray": Effie Deans by James McNeill Whistler
Effie Deans by John Everett Millais
Porteous Riots
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The Porteous Riots surrounded the activities of John Porteous, Captain of the City Guard of Edinburgh, Scotland, who was lynched by a mob for his part in the killing of innocent civilians while orderi
The Heart of Midlothian
…Schoolmaster and Parish-clerk of Gandercleugh". The main action, which takes place between September 1736 and May 1737, is set in motion by the Porteous Riots in Edinburgh and involves an epic journey from Edinburgh to London by a working-class girl to obtain a royal commutation of the death penalty incurred…
The Porteous Mob, painted in 1855 by James Drummond
The Porteous Riot by James Skene, 1818
Re-enactors dressed as the Edinburgh City Guard at the time of the Porteous Riot
Drawing of the West Bow in Edinburgh, which connected the Lawnmarket to the Grassmarket