Phineas Finn by Anthony Trollope: “Do you remember the story of Conachar in the 'Fair Maid of Perth;'--how his heart refused to give him blood enough to fight?”
The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather: “Constance de Beverley and the minstrel girl in "The Fair Maid of Perth," not the Duchesse de Langeais, were his heroines.”