Physical description

Waverley Novels Vol 19 The Monastery-2, Light brown hardcover lettering in black text.
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher: Fisher Son & Co
Date: 1837

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on spine with typed text PAT FIC SCO
Paste down front end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library
Front loose end paper has a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service

Summary

The subject volume of Waverley Novels Vol 19 published by Fisher Son & Co (1838) is part of a collected 48 volume set of Sir Walter Scott's works, containing various stories. Vol 19 in the 1836 Fisher edition reprints later entries from the fourth series, as these stories originally appeared in Scott's Magnum Opus 48 volume editions, the first from 1816. With the influential “Magnum Opus” editions from 1829–1833 by Robert Cadell, serving as the basis for later reprinted published sets like Fisher's.
Volume 2 is linked to the earlier volume through its shared setting, families, and historical conflict, but it is not a direct continuation of the same protagonist’s journey. It follows the Glendinning brothers and Mary Avenel in the same Scottish Borders world of the Reformation, with the same abbey, the same political tensions, and the same supernatural “White Lady”.
In Volume 1 of “The Monastery” the story sets up the core relationships and tensions between Halbert and Edward Glendinning as they grow up near Kennaquhair with Mary Avenel. While the monastery itself becomes a battleground between old Catholic power and the new Protestant order. The second volume picks up those same threads and pushes them toward resolution through Halbert’s rise, Mary’s marriage, and Edward’s shift toward monastic life.