Christian Isobel Johnstone's Clan-Albin: A National Tale was published in 1815. In her novel, Johnstone engages with themes on British imperial expansion, metropolitan England's economic and political relationships with the Celtic peripheries, and the role of women in public life.

Juliet Shields is Professor of English at the University of Washington, where she teaches courses in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, women's writing, postcolonial studies, and diaspora studies. She is the author of Sentimental Literature and Anglo-Scottish Identity (Cambridge UP 2010) and Nation and Migration: the Making of British Atlantic Literature (Oxford UP 2016); and co-editor of two volumes of essays, Representing Place in British Literature and Culture, 1640-1830 (Ashgate 2013), and Migration and Modernity: the state of being stateless, 1750-1850 (Edinburgh UP 2019).

Volume II

Clan-Albin: A National Tale volume III & VI

Editorial Notes