About “The Heart of Midlothian”
This novel is focused on the trials for murder of John Porteous and of Effie Deans in 1736 and 1737, framed as a chronicle spanning the eighty years of the life of David Deans, who dies in 1751. It raises the problem of a judicial system that fails to produce justice, set against the perceptions of his daughter Jeanie.
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