Romance Cartography: a map of Paul Jones (1826)

Citation

McKeever G (2020) Romance Cartography: a map of Paul Jones (1826). Regional Romanticism: Dumfriesshire and Galloway, 1770-1830 [Digital Map Resource] 2020. https://regionalromanticism.glasgow.ac.uk/paul-jones/

Abstract
First paragraph: Allan Cunningham’s novel Paul Jones; A Romance reimagines the life-story of John Paul Jones (1747-1792), who was a mariner from southwest Scotland. Born John Paul, he emigrated to America and added ‘Jones’ to his name after having killed a mutineer on board his ship in 1773. He became famous for his actions across 1778-9 fighting on behalf of the Revolutionary United States. His raids on Britain included targeting both the English town of Whitehaven – where he had been apprenticed as a teenager – and his home county of Kirkcudbrightshire on the Scottish side of the Solway Firth. He was villainised for his actions by the British press as a traitor and a pirate.