The Village Curate: An interresting [sic] Tale.

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers

1840-1850 per University of Glasgow Union Catalogue of Scottish Chapbooks

24 pages

16 cm

Chapbook #12 in a bound collection of 20 chapbooks (s0231b06)

57 printed at bottom of title-page

This short story tells the tale of a well-off Lord who pretends to have lost his fortune in order to distinguish his true friends from the flatterers. When all but one of his friends abandon him, he decides that none of the upper-class ladies are worth his affection so he goes off in disguise as a peasant to his own lands. There he discovers a poor state of affairs with a corrupt steward and a wrongly-imprisoned pastor, and he endeavors to anonymously right the wrongs of his tenants. In the process of paying off the pastor’s debts, the disguised Lord falls in love with the pastor’s daughter, who he rescues from the unwanted attention of a steward and whose affection he claims. In the end, he casts off his disguise to the joy of all and marries the pastor’s daughter.

Courtship and Marriage

Crime

Religion and Morals

Chapbooks - Scotland - Glasgow

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