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Reginald Dalton
''Reginald Dalton'' is an 1823 comedy novel by the Scottish writer John Gibson Lockhart originally published in three volumes by William Blackwood in Edinburgh and Thomas Cadell (publisher), Thomas Cadell in London. It was one of four novels Lockhart published in the early 1820s, including ''Valerius (novel), Valerius'' (1821) and ''Adam Blair (novel), Adam Blair'' (1822). It takes place around Oxford University which Lockhart had himself attended. It helped to launch the genre of "Oxford novels" which focus on the development of a young student.Dougill p.92-93 Synopsis Reginald Dalton, a naïve young vicar's son, arrives at Oxford to study but soon falls in with a bad crowd and runs into debt. His father can scarcely afford to support him and he becomes a servitor, leading to snobbish mockery and exclusion from those who had once been his friends. He ends up fighting a duel. References Bibliography * Bevan, David. ''University Fiction''. Rodopi, 1990. * Brock, Michael G. & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Gibson Lockhart
John Gibson Lockhart (12 June 1794 – 25 November 1854) was a Scottish writer and editor. He is best known as the author of the seminal, and much-admired, seven-volume biography of his father-in-law Sir Walter Scott: ''Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart'' Early years Lockhart was born on 12 June 1794 in the manse of Cambusnethan House in Lanarkshire to Dr John Lockhart, who transferred in 1796 to Glasgow, and was appointed minister in the Presbyterian Church of Scotland, and his second wife Elizabeth Gibson (1767–1834), daughter of Margaret Mary Pringle and Reverend John Gibson, minister of St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh. He was the younger paternal half-brother of the politician William Lockhart. Lockhart attended Glasgow High School, where he showed himself clever rather than industrious. He fell into ill-health, and had to be removed from school before he was 12; but on his recovery he was sent at this early age to the University of Glasgow, and displayed so much ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
