During his lifetime, James published an estimated 100 novels. Arrah Neil was published some 40 years after his death. In this historical novel, we are transported to the times of the English Civil War. Lord Walton and his sister Anne are monarchists and fall foul of the revolutionary government of Cromwell and his Roundheads. Arrah Neil is the winsome granddaughter of one of the retainers on the estate. - Summary by LynneT