Project Gutenberg 2025-06-18 Public domain in the USA. 239 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) 1860 1914 Crockett, Samuel Rutherford Lucas, Sydney Seymour 1878 1954 Maid Margaret of Galloway : $b The life story of her whom four centuries have called "the fair maid of Galloway" $aLondon :$bHodder and Stoughton, $c1905. Sequel to: The Black Douglas, #17733. Also published under the title: May Margaret, called "the fair maid of Galloway." an anonymous Project Gutenberg volunteer "Maid Margaret of Galloway : The life story of her whom four centuries have…." by S. R. Crockett is a historical novel written in the early 20th century. Told as the spirited first-person memoir of the “Fair Maid of Galloway,” it blends romance and clan politics with Franco-Scottish history in the era of the Douglases and the Dauphin of France. The tale centers on Margaret Douglas, her formidable cousin and intended, William Douglas, his dazzling brother James, and their friend Abbot Laurence M‘Kim, moving between a Touraine convent, a Loire-side château, and the larger struggle for power in Scotland. Expect courtly fêtes, tourneys, and intrigue threaded with a sharp, lively female voice. The opening of the novel frames Margaret’s narrative as “found papers,” then plunges into her witty account of hating life in a strict convent at Cheverney until Abbot Laurence arrives with a papal Bull to fetch her for a marriage to her cousin, William Douglas. Whisked to Cour Cheverney under the patronage of Sieur Paul, she tastes freedom, flirts, spars verbally with the future Louis XI (the Dauphin) in disguise, and needles both the grave William and the showy James. A lively sequence features her attempted escape toward Amboise, a triumphant tourney where James wins the prize, and William’s quiet, unexpected arrival as a masked combatant—only to be denied a kiss. At the start of their true courtship, William walks with her by a stream and candidly declares both his love and his grand design: to rule Scotland in fact, if not in name, avenge past wrongs, and bring law and order as the power behind the throne. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008664727 20250609114330crockett 1905 GB Reading ease score: 87.0 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Scotland -- History -- James II, 1437-1460 -- Fiction Galloway (Scotland) -- Fiction Douglas, Margaret Douglas, Countess of, 1427?-1474? -- Fiction PR Text Category: Historical Novels Category: Romance Category: British Literature 778783 2025-07-30T07:44:58.199510 text/html 759603 2025-06-18T13:01:29 text/html 4410985 2025-07-30T07:45:08.879414 application/epub+zip 4417481 2025-07-30T07:44:59.979442 application/epub+zip 408925 2025-07-30T07:44:58.995440 application/epub+zip 4664002 2025-07-30T07:45:15.975343 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 4613586 2025-07-30T07:45:07.339440 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 728776 2025-07-30T07:44:56.373431 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 708889 2025-06-18T13:01:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 15031 2025-07-30T07:45:16.170349 application/rdf+xml 12793 2025-07-30T07:44:59.220443 image/jpeg 2676 2025-07-30T07:44:59.110417 image/jpeg 4597479 2025-07-30T07:44:58.370435 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia