Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen.
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Set in the 1730s in a Scotland uneasily united with England, The Heart of Mid-Lothian dramatizes different kinds of justice-that meted out by the Edinburgh mob in the lynching of Captain Porteous, and that encountered by a terrified young girl suspected of killing her baby.
Her sister is to be executed for infanticide and, while refusing to lie to help her case, Jeanie is desperate for a reprieve.
Jeanie Deans, a dairymaid, decides she must walk to London to gain an audience with the Queen