John Galt (1779-1839) was a Scottish novelist. Born in Irvine, Ayrshire, Galt was the son of a naval captain. When his family relocated to Malden in 1789, he became an apprentice and junior clerk, writing essays and stories for local journals in his spare time. He moved to London in 1804 to seek his fortune. While subsequently travelling in Europe, he met and befriended Lord Byron. On his return to London, he wrote an account of his travels, which met with moderate success. Decades later, he published the first full biography of Lord Byron and published his two-volume Autobiography in 1833. He also wrote a number of school texts under the pseudonym Reverend T. Clark. Amongst his other works are The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. (1820), The Ayrshire Legatees (1821), Annals of the Parish; or, The Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder (1821) and The Provost (1823).
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John Galt (1779-1839) has been described as the first political novelist in the English language. This edition is a development of the collection - published in 2001 by the Saltire Society in Edinburgh - which brought together the three early works 'Annals of the Parish' (1821), 'The Ayrshire Legatees' (1821) and 'The Provost' (1822). To these characteristic, and very successful, shorter novels - set in the rural Scotland of the late eighteenth century, as agricultural society was giving way to the new industrial growth - is now added 'The Entail' (1823), a full-length masterpiece. As Ian Campbell explains, in his new introduction, the longer work has been added to give the reader an opportunity to appreciate fully the extent of Galt's talent as he develops his comic and constructional abilities to handle a longer plot, a larger cast of characters - and a splendid palette of language.
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