Clayton Mackenzie Legge

Clayton Mackenzie Legge is the author of Highland Mary: The Romance of a Poet, a novel first published in 1906. In its original foreword, the book openly says it is fiction rather than strict history, even while drawing on real people and events connected with the Scottish poet Robert Burns.

The story centers on Burns, Mary Campbell, and Jean Armour, blending romance and historical detail in a way that feels vivid and accessible. Modern library and Project Gutenberg records continue to list the book as Legge’s best-known work, and it remains available to new readers in the public domain.

Reliable biographical information about Legge himself is very limited in the sources I could confirm, so little else can be said with confidence beyond his authorship of this novel and its 1906 publication.