John Ballantyne, Scott's literary agent, drew up a contract for Rob Roy on with Archibald Constable and Longman who had published the first three Waverley novels, the author having lost confidence in the publishers of his most recent fictional work Tales of my Landlord, John Murray and William Blackwood, who had turned out to be insufficiently committed to that project. To resolve the problems, Frank travels into Scotland and meets the larger-than-life title character, Rob Roy MacGregor. Rashleigh is an intelligent young man, but he is unscrupulous, and he causes problems for the business of Osbaldistone and Tresham. In exchange, his father accepts Frank's cousin Rashleigh to work in his business. Frank is sent by his father to live at the long unseen family home with his uncle and his male cousins, when he refuses to join his father's successful business. He is the son of an English merchant who parted from his family home in the north of England near the border with Scotland when he was a young man, being of different religion and temperament than his own father or his younger brother. Both may be accepted as "valid", but they serve different needs and interests.' įrank Osbaldistone narrates the story. The other is a good story, a lively tale set in the past. The depiction of Rob Roy bears little relation to the historical figure: 'there are two Rob Roys. It is probably set in 1715, the year of the second Jacobite uprising, and the social and economic background to that event are an important element in the novel, though it is not treated directly. Rob Roy (1817) is a historical novel by Walter Scott, one of the Waverley novels.
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