A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments, with an account of the Gaelic language, literature and music by Thomas Maclauchlan, ... an essay on Highland scenery by John Wilson

The education of women, rational love, egalitarian marriages, an ethic of care-these are the cornerstones of the feminine Romantic ideology laid out in the leading women's novels of the Romantic era. Jane Porter, for instance, made them the basis of her historical fictions. Although her protagonists, Thaddeus in Thaddeus of Warsaw (1803) and William Wallace in The Scottish Chiefs (1810), are men, they consistently regard the values of the domestic affections and loyalty to the family and its ideals as their highest commitments. She thus prepared the way for Walter Scott's commitment to domesticity and a feminine Romantic ideology in his historical fiction. While most of the women novelists of the Romantic period endorsed these values overtly, a few powerful writers focused instead on the horrors of their absence or violation. The leading writers of the female Gothic tradition displayed the violence that results, especially to women, when a society fails to sustain gender equality and an ethic of care. The novels of Ann Radcliffe, Clara Dacre Byrne, Regina Maria -339- Regina Maria (The Children of the Abbey, 1796), and, most powerfully, Mary Shelley expose the dark underside of the doctrine of the separate spheres, of the sexual division of labor, and of patriarchal economic systems, both pre- and postindustrial ...»