Synopsis
The Saxon And The Gaël, Or, The Northern Metropolis: Including A View Of The Lowland And Highland Character by Christian Isobel Johnstone presents a multi-volume Scottish historical romance set around the Highlands and Lowlands of Scotland in the early modern period. The narrative contrasts Highland kinship and Highland hospitality with Lowland commerce, aristocratic ambition, and marriage politics within a rapidly changing society. Through a blend of letters, dialogues, dances, feasts, and dramatic tableaux—featuring distillers, lairds, heiresses, and clan leaders—the work satirizes fashionable society, the marriage market, and inheritance while tracing loyalties to family, clan, and nation. Central figures such as Jane Winpenny, Rosabell Macallan, Angus, and Lord Glenlara navigate love, pride, and duty amid social machinations, guising balls, and public entertainments. Grounded in national identity, it weaves romance with political and cultural tensions, offering a vivid portrait of the Northern Metropolis and its shifting moral landscape across four volumes.
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