The Fair Maid of Perth

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<tr><th>Country</th><td>Scotland</td></tr><tr><th>Language</th><td>English, Lowland Scots</td></tr><tr><th>Series</th><td>Chronicles of the Canongate; Waverley Novels</td></tr><tr><th>Genre(s)</th><td>Historical novel</td></tr> <tr><th>Media Type</th><td>Print (Hardback & Paperback)</td></tr><tr><th>ISBN</th><td>NA</td></tr>

**The Fair Maid of Perth**
Author	Sir Walter Scott
Publisher
Released	1828

The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) is one of Walter Scott's novels. It is set in the 14th Century in Perth and other parts of Scotland.

The book was originally to have two other stories in the same volume: My Aunt Margaret's Mirror and The Death of the Laird's Jock, and was to have been titled St. Valentine's Eve[1]

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The "Fair Maid" is Catherine Glover, daughter of a glovemaker in Perth, who kisses Henry Smith, the armorer, while he is sleeping, on Valentine's day. Smith proposes marriage, and although Catherine refuses at first, she marries him at the end of the book.

There is a parallel plot concerning the romance of Prince James, the son of Robert III of Scotland, and Louise the Glee-Maiden.