Jane Seton; or, The King’s Advocate: A Scottish Historical Romance by James Grant

Description

James Grant, the prolific Victorian writer of Scottish historical romance, sets this story in the Edinburgh of the young Queen Mary — the town’s famous, crowded preparations to receive its sovereign, the trimphs and clarious of the ceremonial entry, and behind the pageantry a court where a misstep means ruin. His heroine is Jane Seton, daughter of the King’s Advocate, a lady of lineage and spirit who finds herself at the centre of the most dangerous romances and conspiracies of the age.

The novel is rich in the passing shows of sixteenth-century Scotland — the bower songs, the ballads, the torchlit entries — and in the grim machinery of a state that punished its adherents without mercy. Grant makes the High Street of old Edinburgh vivid, fills it with loyalties tested to breaking point, and carries the reader through every reversal to a reckoning as romantic as it is just.

Why readers still come back to it

• Swashbuckling Scottish history by one of the century’s great romance writers
• The court of Mary Queen of Scots brought vividly to life
• Ballads, pageantry, and peril in the Edinburgh of 1561

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