St. Ronan's Well

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St. Ronan's Well
Author	Sir Walter Scott
Country	Scotland
Language	English
Series	Waverley Novels
Publisher	Archibald Constable and Co.
Publication date	27 December 1823
Media type	Print (Hardback)

St. Ronan's Well is a novel by Sir Walter Scott, the only one with a nineteenth-century Scotland setting.

1 Plot summary
2 Characters in St. Ronan's Well
3 Quote
4 External links

[edit] Plot summary

The plot is centred around several women who visit a health spa, at Innerleithen, a town near Peebles in southern Scotland.

[edit] Characters in St. Ronan's Well

Captain Hector MacTurk - "the man of peace".
Meg Dods - an old landlady of consistently inconsistent qualities

[edit] Quote

"My gude name! If ony body touched my gude name I would fash neither council nor commissary. I would be down upon them like a sea-falcon amang a wheen wild geese, and the best of them that dared to say onything o' Meg Dods, but what was honest and civil, I would soon see if her cockernonie was made o' her ain hair or other folks."

[edit] External links

St. Ronan's Well, available at Project Gutenberg.
St. Ronan's Well at Walter Scott Digital Archive, the University of Edinburgh library

v • d • e Works by Walter Scott

Novels:	Waverley (1814) • Guy Mannering (1815) • The Antiquary (1816) • The Black Dwarf (1816) • Old Mortality (1816) • Rob Roy (1817) • The Heart of Midlothian (1818) • The Bride of Lammermoor (1819) • A Legend of Montrose (1819) • Ivanhoe (1819) • The Monastery (1820) • The Abbot (1820) • Kenilworth (1821) • The Pirate (1821) • The Fortunes of Nigel (1822) • Peveril of the Peak (1823) • Quentin Durward (1823) • St. Ronan's Well (1823) • Redgauntlet (1824) • The Betrothed (1825) • The Talisman (1825) • Woodstock (1826) • Chronicles of the Canongate (1827) • The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) • Anne of Geierstein (1829) • Count Robert of Paris (1831) • Castle Dangerous (1831)