A Dictionary of the Characters in the Waverley Novels of Sir Walter Scott

The story opens in the spring of 1745; it includes the Jacobite rising, 'The Forty-five,' with the battle of Prestonpans, the triumphant occupation of Edinburgh, the march into England, and the return from Derby; it closes a few months after the decisive defeat which occurred at Culloden in April, 1746. Much of the action takes place in the Perthshire Highlands.

The opening scenes take place during the first five years of Harry Bertram's life, 1760-5. The main incidents occur sixteen years later, when Colonel Mannering and Vanbeest Brown return from India, occupying a few months of 1781-2. The scene is chiefly laid in Galloway, but incidents also occur in Westmoreland, Liddesdale, and Edinburgh.

The story begins one July near the end of the eighteenth century, and ends in August of the following year. Dealing mainly with the daily life of Monkbarns and his friends, it includes an account of a mistaken alarm of French invasion. With the exception of the opening scenes in Edinburgh and the Hawes Inn, Queensferry, the incidents take place in Forfarshire.

The story begins a few months before the outbreak of the Jacobite rising in 1715, and closes early in 1716, soon after the collapse of the rebellion. The rising is for the most part described only in its effect on the fortunes of the Osbaldistone family, but indications of the