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The Fair Maid of Perth
''The Fair Maid of Perth'' (or ''St. Valentine's Day'') is a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Inspired by the strange story of the Battle of the North Inch, it is set in Perth and other parts of Scotland around 1400.
The book had been intended to include two other stories in the same volume, "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" and "Death of the Laird's Jock", which was to have been titled ''St. Valentine's Eve''.〔(The Fair Maid of Perth (Chronicles of the Canongate, Second Series ) -- Edinburgh University website〕
==Plot introduction==
The fair maid of the title is Catharine Glover, daughter of a glovemaker in Perth, who kisses Henry Gow/Smith,〔''Gow'' is Scottish Gaelic for Smith.〕 the armourer, while he is sleeping, on Valentine's Day. But Catharine has caught the eye of the Duke of Rothesay, and when Gow interrupts an attempted abduction, the armourer is drawn simultaneously into royal intrigue and highland feud.
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