Galt's concerns are still with us today, as our rural communities continue to be swallowed up by urbanization. Annals of the Parish is one of the first works of fiction to address the impact of industrialization and urbanization on society.
These qualities have made Balwidder one of the greatest characters in Scottish literature. He is a schemer yet naive, love's champion who denies his own life-long love, an opponent of war who joins the ranks when Scotland is threatened, and a prim and proper minister who cannot help but laugh over the affair of the bonnet. Reverend Balwidder is a simple man of very human strengths and weaknesses.
Hardcovers in original red cloth covered boards with gilt titles to spine, some. In 1820 Galt began to write for Blackwoods Magazine which published Annals of the Parish and The Ayrshire Legatees in 1821, The Provost and Sir Andrew Wylie. The narrator, the Reverend Micah Balwidder, chronicles the everyday events, big and small, funny and tragic, of the parish of Dalmailing. The Works of John Galt: Annals of the Parish & Ayrshire Legatees. Set in rural Scotland of two hundred years ago, Annals of the Parish is a quiet gem of a novel.
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