Famous Scots Series

James Watt

Andrew Carnegie

The work is a nineteenth‑century biography of James Watt, the Scottish inventor whose steam engine…

John Knox

A. Taylor Innes

The work is a scholarly biography of John Knox, the Scottish reformer born around 1514, assembled from the…

Robert Louis Stevenson

Margaret Moyes Black

The work is a modestly sized memoir and appreciation of the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, written…

Andrew Melville

William Morison

The work is a scholarly biography of Andrew Melville, the eminent 16th‑century Scottish reformer, written by…

The Balladists

John Geddie

Thomas Carlyle

Hector Macpherson

King Robert the Bruce

Alexander Falconer Murison

Sir Walter Scott

George Saintsbury

The 'Blackwood' Group

George Douglas

Thomas Chalmers

William Garden Blaikie

Fletcher of Saltoun

George W. T. Omond

Sir William Wallace

Alexander Falconer Murison

George Buchanan

Wallace, Robert; Smith, John Campbell

Allan Ramsay

William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Principal Cairns

John Cairns

James Frederick Ferrier

Elizabeth Sanderson Haldane

James Boswell

W. Keith Leask

Tobias Smollett

William Henry Oliphant Smeaton

Hugh Miller

W. Keith Leask

Robert Burns

Gabriel Setoun

Kirkcaldy of Grange

Louis A. Barbé

Norman Macleod

John Wellwood