John Galt
A Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and political and social commentator. Because he was the first novelist to deal with issues of the Industrial Revolution, he has been called the first political novelist in the English language (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt_(novelist)>Wikipedia</a>).
Works (38)

The life of Lord Byron
1830

Penny Dreadfuls

Annals of the parish, or
1910

The entail, or, The lairds of Grippy
1823

The spaewife
1823

Bogle Corbet
1831

The lives of the players
1831

Sir Andrew Wylie of that ilk
1822

George the Third, his court, and family
1820

The provost and other tales
1842

The bachelor's wife
1824

The autobiography
1833

The provost
1822

Letters from the Levant
1813

The howdie and other tales
1923

The literary life and miscellanies of John Galt
1834

Ringan Gilhaize, or, The times of the covenanters
1981

Lawrie Todd
1830

Annals of the parish ; and, The Ayrshire legatees
1850

The progress of genius, or, Authentic memoirs of the early life of Benjamin West, Esq. president of the Royal Academy, London
1831

All the voyages round the world, from the first by Magellan in 1520, to that of Krusenstern in 1807
1820

The last of the lairds
1826

The universal traveller
1824

Rothelan
1824

Il Majolo
1996

Annals of the parish The Ayreshire legatees and The Provost

The steam-boat
1822

Dreams come due

The Ayrshire legatees
1821

The member
1832

The reform
1833

Southennan
1830

The life of Benjamin West (1816-1820)
1960

[Mexico, etc

The gathering of the West
1823

The life, studies, and works of Benjamin West
1820

Selected short stories
1978

Andrew of Padua and the Omen