The Female Portrait Gallery

by Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The Female Portrait Gallery

By
Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Taken from
Blanchard’s
Life and Literary Remains
1841

Note:

This was the beginning of an ongoing project that was to analyse female characters in
fiction, not only from Sir Walter Scott but from other major authors as well. A small
number had already been published in The New Monthly Magazine and, prior to her
death, Mrs MacLean sent this collection to Mr. Blanchard with a view to their being
published by Charles Heath, as ‘Essays on the Female Characters in Walter Scott’, on
a fortnightly basis from January, 1839 (this from the accompanying letter).

THE

FEMALE PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Contents

1	Waverley	Flora Mac Ivor	81
2		Rose Bradwardine	86
3	Guy Mannering	Julia Mannering	90
4		Lucy Bertram	94
5	The Antiquary	Miss Wardour	99
6		Mary Mac Intyre	103
7	Rob Roy	Diana Vernon	108
8	The Black Dwarf	Isabel Vere	114
9	Old Mortality	Edith Bellenden	118
10		Jenny Dennison	122
11	The Heart of Midlothian	Jeannie Deans	127
12		Effie Deans	131
13	The Legend of Montrose	Annot Lyle	136
14	The Bride of Lammermuir	Lucy Ashton	140
15	Ivanhoe	Rebecca	147
16		Rowena	152
17	The Monastery	Mary Avenel	156
18		Mysie Happer	160
19	The Abbot	Mary Queen of Scots	165
20		Catherine Seyton	169
21	Woodstock	Alice Lee	173
22	Marmion	Constance	180