Editing Rob Roy (novel) (section)

==Plot summary==
The story takes place just before the 1715 [[Jacobite Rising]], with much of Scotland in turmoil. 

Frank Osbaldistone, the narrator, quarrels with his father and is sent to stay with an uncle, Sir Hildebrand Osbaldistone, in Northumberland. Frank falls in love with Diana Vernon, Sir Hildebrand's niece, whose father has been forced to go into hiding because of his Jacobite sympathies. Frank's cousin, Rashleigh, steals important documents vital to the honour and economic solvency of Frank's father, William, and Frank pursues Rashleigh to Scotland. Several times his path crosses the mysterious and powerful figure [[Robert Roy MacGregor]], known as Rob Roy, an associate of Diana's uncle Sir Hildebrand. There is much confusion as the action shifts to the beautiful mountains and valleys around [[Loch Lomond]]. A British army detachment is ambushed and there is bloodshed. All Sir Hildebrand's sons but Rashleigh are killed in the [[Jacobite Rising]], and Rashleigh too meets a bloody end. Following this, Frank inherits Sir Hildebrand's property and marries Diana. The plot has been criticised as disjointed.{{Citation needed|date=May 2009}} [[Robert Louis Stevenson]], however, who loved it from childhood, regarded ''Rob Roy'' as the best novel of the greatest of all novelists.<ref name="Stevenson">{{cite web|url=https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848et/chapter6.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120331032159/http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/s/stevenson/robert_louis/s848et/chapter6.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=31 March 2012|title=Random Memories: rosa quo locorum|last=Stevenson|first=Robert Louis|date=1871–1879|work=Essays of Travel|publisher=The University of Adelaide|access-date=26 May 2010}}</ref> 

The novel is a brutally realistic depiction of the social conditions in Highland and Lowland Scotland in the early 18th century. The Highlanders were compared with American Indians, as regards to their primitive, isolated lifestyle. {{Citation needed|date=July 2010}} Some of the dialogue is in Scots, and the novel includes a glossary of Scottish words.