When the handsome young peasant lad Donald saves the beautiful
Matilda from drowning, he quickly becomes a favourite of her
father, Lord Bosmora. The two youths soon fall in love, and nothing
seems to stand in their way but Donald's uncertain parentage.
Little do they suspect the evil forces that surround them,
represented by three villains. The wicked Lady Margaret has sworn
vengeance on the young lovers, while the lecherous Baron Duncaethal
threatens to storm Bosmora Castle and seize Matilda by force. And
then there is the mysterious bandit Darthalgo-who is he, and what
is his inscrutable purpose?
"The Caledonian Bandit; or, The Heir of Duncaethal" (1811) is
one of the best of the later Minerva Press Gothic novels and also
one of the rarest, with only two known copies surviving. This new
edition features the unabridged text of the original two-volume
edition as well as a new introductory essay by Carol Margaret
Davison focusing on Scottish Gothic, notes, and a bibliography.
Mrs. Smith's other Gothic novel, "Barozzi; or, The Venetian
Sorceress" (1815), is also available in paperback from Valancourt
Books.
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