Outlander (published in English as Cross Stitch is the first in a series of eight multi-novel histories by Diana Gabaldon. Published in 1991, he focused on World War II nurse Claire Randall, who traveled through the time to Scotland in the 18th century and found adventure and romance with the handsome Jamie Fraser. A mixture of several genres, the Outlander series has an element of historical fiction, romance, adventure and science fiction/fantasy. Outlander won the Best Romantic Romance Writer Award for Romance 1991. A television adaptation of the inaugural Outlander series on Starz in the US on August 9, 2014.
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In 1946, after working separately during the Second World War, British army nurse Claire Randall and her husband, Frank, a history professor, went on a second honeymoon to Inverness, Scotland. Frank conducts research into his family history and Claire goes to collect plants near the rocks standing on the hill Craigh na Dun. He collapsed while investigating a buzzing sound near a rock; when he woke up, he met Frank's ancestor, Captain Jack Randall. Before Captain Randall was able to take him into custody, he was passed out by a Scottish Gael who brought Claire to his clan. When Gaels accidentally comes to their wounded comrade, Jamie, Claire uses her medical skills to control the dislocated shoulders. The men identified themselves as members of Clan MacKenzie, and Claire finally concluded that she had traveled to the past. She represents herself as an English widow traveling to France to see her family. The Gaels did not believe him and took him to Castle Leoch, where Claire was looking for a way to get back to her own time.
The Gaels of 1743 saw Claire as "Gall" (stranger), "Sassenach", or "Outlander", not knowing the Gaelic culture. His medical skills gained their respect; but the chief, Colum MacKenzie, suspected him of being a British spy. Colum sent him with his brother, Dougal, to collect the rent; on the way he also collects donations for the Jacobites, supervised by Ned Gowan, a Edinburgh lawyer who works for the Klan.
When another opportunity brought him to his attention, Captain Randall told Dougal to bring Claire to him for questioning. There is a suspicion that he may be a British spy. To keep Claire from Randall, Dougal marries Jamie, who makes him a Scottish citizen. Torn between his attachment to Jamie and his thoughts about Frank, Claire tries to get back to Craigh na Dun. However, he was captured by Randall's men, needing Jamie to save him. Upon returning to Castle Leoch, Claire continues to act as an official healer, and befriends Geillis Duncan, wife of a local official, who shares her knowledge of medicines. Eventually Claire and Geillis are accused of magic while Jamie leaves, but Jamie returns on time to save Claire. While in jail with Geillis, Claire learns that Geillis is part of a plan to return King James to the Scottish throne with Dougal and that she also contains her child. Just before their escape, Claire realizes that Geillis, like herself, from the future, when she sees a smallpox vaccine scar on her arm. Geillis also saw Claire's scar.
Claire told Jamie her true story, and she took it to Craigh na Dun. When he offered him a chance to stay or leave, he decided to stay. Jamie takes her to her home in Lallybroch, where they meet Jamie's sister, Jenny and her husband, Ian. Although Jamie is still a fugitive from the UK, he regains his position as Laird of Lallybroch, until one of his tenants betrayed him and he was taken to Wentworth Prison. Claire and the MacKenzie clan tried to save her, but they failed, and Claire was captured by Randall, who threatened to rape her. Jamie offered herself to Claire's place, and Randall freed Claire into the woods. Claire tells Randall that she is a magician and tells him the exact day of his death, which he knows from the history of the Frank family. After that Claire befriended Sir Marcus MacRannoch, a former applicant to Jamie's mother. While MacRannoch's men distracted the Wentworth guard, the clan pushed a group of cows through an underground tunnel, trampling a man. They rescued Jamie, who had been physically assaulted and sexually assaulted by Randall, and took him to MacRannoch's camp, where Claire took care of Jamie's wound. As soon as Jamie was able, they and Jamie's godmother, Murtagh, fled to the monastery of Saint Anne de Beaupre in France, where Jamie's other uncle was the abbot. When she and Jamie emerged from the holy hot springs under Abbey, Claire revealed that she was pregnant.
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Main characters
- Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser: A warm, practical, and independent former war nurse who accidentally traveled back in time to the Scottish Highlands in the mid-18th century. Although married to Frank Randall in the 20th century, he fell in love with Jamie Fraser in the 18th century. A gifted natural doctor and amateur botanist, Claire is an only child and an orphan, who was raised by her archeologist uncle.
- James "Jamie" MacKenzie Fraser (aka Jamie MacTavish): The little Scottish pink hair with elaborate and crippling past humor. Jamie was intelligent, principled, and, by the standards of the 18th century, educated and worldly. He picked up the language very easily, and after the initial conflict he fell in love with the mysterious Claire. Although she does not always know what she's doing, Jamie usually trusts Claire.
- Frank Wolverton Randall: Claire's twentieth-century husband and a history professor with a keen interest in his ancestral pedigree and heritage. He worked for MI6 during the Second World War as an intelligence agent.
- Jonathan Randall (aka "Black Jack" Randall): The main villain of the story and the ancestor of Frank Randall, a British army officer. According to Jamie, "Black" refers to the color of his soul. Jack resembles Frank's offspring, and has a sadistic sexual obsession with Jamie.
- Colum MacKenzie: Chairman of the MacKenzie clan and Jamie's uncle, who sheltered Jamie and Claire from England. He suffered from Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome.
- Dougal MacKenzie: Younger Jacobite sister Colum, who leads the clan in battle because her brother is handicapped. It suggests that he may be the biological father of Colon's son, Hamish. He also took Jamie as a foster child for his time as a teenager. Dougal has four daughters with his wife, and a son with Geillis Duncan.
- Geillis/Geilie Duncan: The wife of a fiscal procurator, who believes she is a wizard, and has knowledge of plants and plants. Geillis was pregnant with Dougal MacKenzie's child while in prison for magic, which earned him a brief reprieve. He killed her husband, Arthur Duncan. Eventually Claire realized that she was a time traveler from the 1960s.
- Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser: Jamie's baptized, quiet, reserved and brave father, and very loyal to Jamie, whom he cares about as a son. At first she does not accept Claire, but changes her mind when she sees how Jamie loves her.
- Laoghaire MacKenzie: A sixteen-year-old girl interested in Jamie. He sent Claire to Geillis Duncan just before the magician's trial because she "loved" Jamie and wanted him back.
Development and inspiration
Diana Gabaldon plans to write a history novel "to practice", but has no special arrangement in mind until she happens to watch the The War Games , the classic serial Doctor Who . , in PBS. His eyes were caught by the character of Jamie McCrimmon, a Scottish youth from 1745 who was played by actor Frazer Hines. The image of the young man in the skirt stayed with him, and he decided to compose his novel in the 18th century Scotland. He named his male protagonist "Jamie" after the Doctor Who character (however, the last name "Fraser" was not taken from the Frazer Hines actor, as the PBS station cut the program credit).
Gabaldon's original plan was to write a "straight historical novel", but when he began writing the character of Claire, he said that the character "immediately took over his story and began to tell it himself, making a smart modern statement about everything." Gabaldon decided to make the character of a modern woman and determine how she could be in 18th-century Scotland later.
Gabaldon recognizes the date difference between the American version of the novel, the plot that began in 1945, and the English version, which began in 1946. He explains, "Reay Tannahill, a gracious Scot corrected the novel before it was published in England, saying that 1946 would be a more accurate representation of conditions as I explain in Scotland. "Gabaldon can rework all dates for the English edition, but the American version is too far in production to change.
Reception and rewards
The Weekly Publishers said about Outlander , "Absorbing and moving, this first novel with a fancy of land and knowledge of Scotland, speeding up both with a realistic character and a passionate and joyful hero. " This novel won the Romantic RITA Award for Best Romantic Writers of America 1991.
Television series
In June 2013, Starz ordered 16 episodes of television adaptation, and production begins in October 2013 in Scotland. The series airs in the US on August 9, 2014. It was taken for the second season on August 15, 2014, and for the third and fourth seasons on June 1, 2016. On May 9, 2018, Starz renewed the series for the fifth and sixth seasons.
More adaptations
In 2010 Gabaldon adapted the first third of Outlander into The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel, illustrated by Hoang Nguyen. In the same year, the 14-song cycle based on Outlander was released under the title Outlander: The Musical .
References
External links
- Official website
- "An Outlander Family Tree (Official)". Random House. 2014.
- First edition photo Outlander
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