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Scots Language Society
Annual Collogue 2007
John Galt
(Ł15, Ł12 concession - buffet includit)
Proveisional
Programme
Venue: Fred Paton Centre, Carrington Street, Glesca
Theme: John Galt: his novels, life an times
9.30 am
Reception & Registration
10.00 Walcome & Innin – Tam Band (Preses)
10.10
John Galt: the Historical Context
editor of a 1979 volume of essays on Galt, Professor Whatley has written much since then on the social and political history of Scotland in the 18th & 19th centuries, and returns to our Collogue from lecturing the previous week in Guelph, the city in Canada founded by John Galt himself.
10.50 Dramatic duologue frae The Entail, wrocht bi Elaine Morton
performed bi Simon Scott an Ann Scott-Jones
11.20 J.
Derrick McClure
John Galt and Ayrshire Scots
To an even greater extent than Burns, Galt uses a Scots firmly rooted in the dialect of his home county. Derrick McClure, an Ayrshire man himself, will show how Galt adds life and realism to his characters by the use of authentic Ayrshire words and turns of phrase.
12.00 Sangschaw session
a puckle o the pick frae Portobello Hie Schuil til the Sangschaw competeition this year
12.15
Presentation o Annual Accoonts & AGM o the Scots Language Society
12.45 Buffet Lunch
13.45 Dramatic monologue frae Annals of the Parish
performed bi Simon Scott
14.00 Martin Bowman
'Ordered for the best in this howling wilderness'
- this paper will describe Galt's debt to the writers of sentimental and gothic romances and focuses on The Entail and some of Galt's short fiction.
14.50 Sangschaw session
the pick o the adult entries til this year's competeition
15.30
Ian Campbell
John Galt's Scottish fiction
John Galt's Scottish fiction is often thought of as preserving the past: he has often been accused of kailyard sentimentality. Nothing could be further from the truth. This paper examines some of his response to the change which was transforming the Scotland of his time.
16.20 Dramatic monologue frae The Ayrshire Legatees
performed bi Ann Scott-Jones
Follaed bi general discussion, skailin roun aboot 17.00
John Galt (1779 – 1839)
1779 Born on May 2nd, in Irvine, son o a sea-captain wha aucht his ain ship an treddit wi the West Indies. Irvine wes the oreeginal o Gudetown in The Provost.
1787 – 88 Gaed til the Grammar Schuil in Irvine.
1789 The faimly flittit to Greenock an a new house on the corner o Blackhall an West Burn Street. John gaed to clesses in the Royal Close.
1795 Darged as a clerk in Greenock customs house, than as a clerk in the countin house o James Miller.
1797 Jynt founder o a leeterary associe in Greenock.
1803 His essay on John Wilson, the Greenock makar, wes prentit as heidpiece to John Leyden’s Scottish Descriptive Poems. Bitties frae his poem The Battle of Largs furthset in the Scots Magazine in April (mair bitties in Januar 1804).
1804 Efter a stushie wi a radgie client, he left Miller’s countin house an gaed to London. The Battle of Largs furthset but taen back. In pairtnership wi McLachlan, a factor an broker.
1808 Faan bankrupt but tuik up business wi his brither Thomas, wha gaed to Honduras.
1809 - 11 Entered Lincoln’s Inn for a whilie but it cam to naething an he set out to traivel the Mediterranean for twa year, whaur he met wi Lord Byron.
1811 Won hame to London by way o Greenock.
1812 Furthset his Life of Cardinal Wolsey, five blank verse Tragedies an Travels in the Years 1809, 1810, and 1811. Gaed to Gibraltar to wark for a Glesca merchant.
1813 Hame to London an mairried on Elizabeth Tilloch, his leeterary patron’s dochter. Furthset Letters from the Levant. The haundscrievin o Annals of the Parish rejeckit by Constable. His lest meetin wi Byron.
1814 His son John born. He edited, owerset an gied pairt til The New British Theatre in 4 volumes.
1815 His son Thomas born. Secretar til the Royal Caledonian Asylum for bairns o Scots soldiers.
1816 The Majolo: a Tale (2 vols) an Life of Benjamin West (vol 1) furthset.
1817 His feyther deed, his son Alexander born.
1818 The Appeal: a Tragedy brocht out at Edinburgh wi a prologue by J. G. Lockhart an an epilogue by Scott. Efter a commercial ettle in Greenock, Galt cam back to London dargin for the Union Canal Company.
1819 Orra scrievins includin schuil buiks. His first acceptance for Blackwood’s Magazine.
1820 – 1821 The Ayrshire Legatees serialised in Blackwood’s an The Earthquake furthset. Appyntit agent for a group o claimants in Upper Canada.
1821 The Steamboat in pairts in Blackwood’s, The Annals of the Parish an The Ayrshire Legatees in buiks.
1822 Sir Andrew Wylie, The Provost, The Steamboat (buik) an The Entail; The Gathering of the West in Blackwood’s.
1823 Galt tuik his ettles in novel-scrievin to Oliver and Boyd, wha furthset Ringan Gilhaize an The Spae Wife. He flittit to Eskgrove in Musselburgh, wha he met David Macbeth Moir, his first biographer.
1824 Rothelan. He became secretar to the new-fundit Canada Company. Les Chroniques ecossaises (The Annals an The Provost owerset in French).
1825 Wi ither Commissioners o the Canada Company, Galt sailed to Canada in January an won hame in June. He gaed back to Blackwood, wha furthset The Omen.
1826 His mither deed. Galt gaed owerseas til Canada as Superintendent for the Canada Company. The Last of the Lairds furthset, but wi unco bowdlerizin by Macbeth Moir. Contreebuted scrievins to Blackwood’s Magazine for the neist seeven years.
1827 Galt fundit the touns o Guelph an Goderich in Ontario, owersaw the development o a million acres atween Lake Huron an Lake Ontario.
1828 Caaed back to England by the government. He wes pit in the King’s Bench Prison for debt for 5 months an efter that, gaed back to scrievin for his breid.
1829 Lawrie Todd; or the Settlers in the Wood, his first novel o Canada, Southennan, an Life of Lord Byron. Gied scrievins til Fraser’s Magazine for the neist seeven years.
1830 Lives of thePlayers, an Bogle Corbet; or the Emigrants furthset.
1831 Funder an secretar o the British American Land Company. The Member an The Radical furthset.
1832 His sons John an Thomas gaed to Canada. Eben Erskine, Poems, an his Autobiography furthset.
1833 His son Alexander gaed to Canada. Galt gaes hame to Greenock. Literary Life an Miscellanies furthset.
1839 Deed at Greenock on 11th April.
Elaine Morton