1) Historical novel 
Redgauntlet (1824) is a historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Dumfries, Scotland in 1765, and described by Magnus Magnusson (a point first made by Andrew Lang) as `in a sense, the most autobiographical of Scott`s novels.` It describes the beginnings of a fictional third Jacobite Rebellion, and includes `Wandering Willie`s Tale`, a fam...