author
Patrick Buchan
1814–1881
These books open a door into 19th-century Scottish imagination, from fairy lore and border legends to bold religious speculation. Though little biographical detail survives, the work itself shows a writer drawn to myth, wonder, and the supernatural.
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Legends of the North: The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride
by Patrick Buchan
About the author
Patrick Buchan was a 19th-century author whose surviving works include The Genesis of the Angels and the Story of Their Early Homes (1868) and Legends of the North: The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride (1873). Modern library and catalog records consistently identify him as living from 1814 to 1881.
His books suggest a writer with wide-ranging interests. One side of his work turns toward Scottish legend and fairy tradition, while another explores religious and imaginative themes about angels and the early spiritual world. That mix gives his writing an unusual character: part folklore, part speculation, and fully rooted in the curiosity of the Victorian era.
Very little reliable personal information was easy to confirm beyond his dates and publications, so the man himself remains somewhat shadowy. Even so, his books have lasted because they preserve the pleasures of older storytelling—strange beings, moral questions, and the feeling that the everyday world may still be touched by mystery.