Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1782–1854) was a contemporary of Sir Walter Scott, a fellow novelist who saluted her as “a sister shadow” in the epilogue of A Legend of Montrose (1819). She published three novels anonymously: Marriage (1818), The Inheritance (1824), and Destiny: or, The Chief’s Daughter (1831). Although no recent edition of her last novel is available, a new edition of The Inheritance was published in 2009, and Marriage, by far her most popular novel, has had several editions in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In the introduction to Virago’s 200th anniversary edition of Marriage (Ferrier 2017), Val McDermid praises Ferrier’s wit and her observant depiction of the Scottish social life of the period. While her popularity had waned by the early twentieth century, her works have received increasing attention by scholars since the 1970s. Often referred to as Jane Austen’s Scottish counterpart, Susan Ferrier is mostly admired for her ferocious satire, and much of the modern scholarship dedicated to her works revolves around notions of female education and the national tale.