Walter Scott is the author of very popular historical novels, the founder of the genre of "historical novel" in England. The main character of the novel “The Adventures of Nigel” is Nigel Oliphant, Lord Glenwarloch, a descendant of a ruined aristocratic Scottish family, who came to London in the hope of turning the wheel of fortune in the right direction. Here he meets the jeweler Heriot and under his influence overcomes the prejudices of the aristocratic class. The ending of the novel is the marriage of the main character to a girl of unknown origin . The novel takes place in the era of James I, successor of Elizabeth I Tudor and the first English king of the Stuart dynasty.