The works of historical novelists such as Sir Walter Scott allow us to reimagine the past from different perspectives
In his 2019 King Over the Water – a complete history of the Jacobites, Desmond Seward provided a brief appendix looking at fictional treatments of Jacobitism. He mentioned Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Buchan, D.K. Broster and Naomi Mitchison. There is perhaps one major omission which we’ll return to later.