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    The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day) is an 1828 novel by Sir Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels. Inspired by the strange, but historically...
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    1828 The Fair Maid of Perth. The physical act of putting one's tongue into one's cheek once signified contempt. For example, in Tobias Smollett's The Adventures...
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    coming of the railways, and its first station was built in 1848. Perth has been known as "The Fair City" since the publication of the novel Fair Maid of Perth...
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    La jolie fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth) is an opera in four acts by Georges Bizet (1838–1875), from a libretto by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges...
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  • Fair Maid may refer to: Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1184–1241), Margaret, Maid of Norway (1283–1290), the Fair Maid of Norway Joan of Kent (1328–1385)...
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    Robert of Paris 1187–94: The Betrothed, The Talisman, Ivanhoe (3) 1307: Castle Dangerous 1396: The Fair Maid of Perth 1468–77: Quentin Durward, Anne of Geierstein...
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  • The Fair Maid of Perth is a 1923 British silent adventure film directed by Edwin Greenwood and starring Russell Thorndike, Sylvia Caine and Lionel d'Aragon...
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    Fair Maid's House is an historic building in the centre of Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. Located in North Port, it is a Category B listed building...
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    "The Great Scott: The Fair Maid Of Perth". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-01-04. Acuna, Kirsten (10 October 2014). "How David Tennant Handled Playing The...
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    Paris, Théâtre Lyrique, 30 September 1863) La jolie fille de Perth (The Fair Maid of Perth), opéra, 4 acts, (J.-H. Vernoy de Saint-Georges & J. Adenis...
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    Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth the following romanticized and fictional account is given: The trumpets of the King sounded a charge, the bagpipes blew...
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    stories ("The Highland Widow" and "The Two Drovers") and a novel (The Surgeon's Daughter) 1828: The Fair Maid of Perththe 2nd instalment from the subset...
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    historical Scottish novel, The Fair Maid of Perth (1828). The Spanish novel Los trabajos de Persiles y Sigismunda ("The Travails of Persiles and Sigismunda"...
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    Scott Monument (category Sculptures of dogs in the United Kingdom)
    being large enough to screen the Old Town behind. Its size and elevated position cause it to dominate the eastern section of the Princes Street Gardens. Following...
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  • sold in Edinburgh in 1780. The story of his imprisonment is the principal subject of Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) in which he is likewise...
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    the Circassians and Russians. The story of the poem may have been inspired by a secondary plotline in the Walter Scott novel The Fair Maid of Perth....
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    Walter Scott – The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series) Rosalia St. Clair – Ulrica of Saxony Alfred de...
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    Bizet in producing his operas The Pearl Fishers (1863) and The Fair Maid of Perth (1867) at the Théâtre Lyrique, commissioned him to write music for his new...
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    Scott's 1828 novel The Fair Maid of Perth dramatizes the lead-up to the Battle of the North Inch, where a judicial duel is among the violent events culminating...
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  • Rus' The Mackintosh-Cameron feud (1290s–1665; Scotland) The Battle of the North Inch; the battle is fictionalised in the novel The Fair Maid of Perth by...
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    Of Pictish race by mother's syde, Quhen Picts ruled Caledon, Lord Chattan claim'd the princely maid, Quhen he saift Pictish crown." The Fair Maid of Perth...
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  • (13th century Scotland, William Wallace) The Fair Maid of Perth by Sir Walter Scott (14th-century Scotland) The Grail Quest by Bernard Cornwell (14th century)...
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    been depicted in historical novels. They include: The Fair Maid of Perth (1828) by Walter Scott. The novel covers events from 1396 to 1402, depicting "Scottish...
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    Narrative' 'The Highland Widow' 'The Two Drovers' The Surgeon's Daughter 2nd series (1828): St Valentine's Day, or, The Fair Maid of Perth After his financial...
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  • Mania errabunda (category History of medicine stubs)
    with drug abuse and alcoholism. Sir Walter Scott's The Fair Maid of Perth. Browne says that the flight of Conacher is similar. Wanderlust Wandering (dementia)...
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    Scott, author of The Fair Maid of Perth in 1828. The statue is the work of John Cochrane and Brothers, and was completed in 1845 as one of their final works...
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    Effie Gray (category People from Perth, Scotland)
    Group. p. 12. ISBN 978-1429962384. Randall, Linda (2012). Effie Gray: Fair Maid of Perth. Melrose Books. p. 291. ISBN 978-1908645098. Walker, Kirsty Stonell...
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  • director. Director The Fair Maid of Perth (1923) Heartstrings (1923) The Bells (1923) 20-minute silent film made as part of the "Gems of Literature" film...
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    Romantic literature in English (category History of literature in the United Kingdom)
    many operas, of which the most famous are Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) by Donizetti, and Bizet's La jolie fille de Perth, The Fair Maid of Perth (1867). However...
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  • Collier produces a script of Punch and Judy. Sir Walter Scott's novel The Fair Maid of Perth (or St. Valentine's Day; Chronicles of the Canongate, 2nd series)...
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