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| Author | John Gibson Lockhart |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Comedy |
| Publisher | William Blackwood |
Publication date | 1823 |
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Reginald Dalton is an 1823 comedy novel by the Scottish writer John Gibson Lockhart originally published in three volumes by William Blackwood.[1] It was one of four novels Lockhart published in the early 1820s, including Valerius (1821) and Adam Blair (1822). It takes place around Oxford University which Lockhart had himself attended.[2] It helped to launch the genre of "Oxford novels" which focus on the development of a young student.[3]
Reginald Dalton, a naïve young vicar's son, arrives at Oxford to study but soon falls in with a bad crowd and runs into debt. His father can scarcely afford to support him and he becomes a servitor, leading to snobbish mockery and exclusion from those who had once been his friends. He ends up fighting a duel.