Hogg's World Now Conference

 

Forthcoming James Hogg Conference: Call for Papers

Hogg’s Worlds Now

The James Hogg Society is delighted to announce that we will be holding a conference at the University of Glasgow on July 2-4, 2027. We warmly invite paper proposals that engage with any aspect of Hogg’s life and writing and with the broader community of authors associated with Scottish Romanticism. The first volume of The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg was published over thirty years ago now, and the edition is still ongoing, with several collections of Hogg’s periodical publications recently released. Considering the progress of this edition and other major editorial projects in Scottish Romantic studies (i.e., Galt, Lockhart, Scottish Women Writers), as well as new theoretical developments, this conference invites you to consider new ways of reading Hogg and his world.

We particularly welcome proposals from graduate students, postgraduate students, and early career scholars.

Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:

● Editing the works of the Scottish Romantics

● The Blackwood’s Circle (including John Gibson Lockhart, William Maginn, David Macbeth Moir, Walter Scott, John Galt, John Wilson)

● James Hogg and periodical culture

● Scottish women writers of the Romantic period and their relationship to Hogg and his world

● Hogg and transatlantic Scottish Romanticism

● New archival, bibliographical, and editorial approaches to Hogg

● Hogg’s afterlives, including adaptations and fan culture

● Reading Hogg and the Scottish Romantics through a Green or Blue Humanities lens

● James Hogg and Animal Studies

● Dis/ability in the works of Hogg and his contemporaries

● Theorizing Hogg’s treatment of Jacobitism in light of Leith Davis and Kevin James’s new edited collection, Shaping Jacobitism, 1688 to the Present: Memory, Culture, Networks (Edinburgh University Press, 2025)

● Hogg, colonization, empire, and/or Indigeneity

● Race and ethnicity in the works of the Scottish Romantics

● Hope in the unsettled age of the Scottish Romantics

● Scottish Romanticism and literary play/playfulness

Given Hogg’s tendency to challenge traditional forms, this conference will disrupt elements of the traditional conference, including different forms of presentations that allow for more time to discuss the ideas our attendees bring to the table. We welcome proposals for twenty-minute conference papers and for panels with a variety of formats, including roundtables.

Please submit a 250-word abstract by 31 December 2026 to Sharon Alker at alkersr@whitman.edu. Please address any questions to Sharon Alker.

New Issue of Studies in Hogg and his World Published

Studies in Hogg and his World 

Issue No. 33–34, 2024–2025

Contents

Special Issue: Unsettling Scottish Literature

ARTICLES

Unsettled ‘Being-in-the-World’: Ontology, Ecology, and Class in James Hogg’s ‘Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon’

Holly Faith Nelson and Sharon Alker 

Witnessing, Law, and the Time of the Ghost in James Hogg’s Late Stories

Penny Fielding

Posthumous Revenge and Self-Harm in James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Ellie Hinds 

A Removing Against the Bankrupts: The Hoggs’ Eviction of 1779

Angus Sutherland 

NOTES

The ‘Small River Called Ellan’: Location and Significance of an Unsettling Encounter in James Hogg’s Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Alan V. Murray

James Hogg and Francis Jeffrey: A Re-Discovered Letter and its Background

Patrick Scott

REVIEWS

Remediating the 1820s, edited by Jon Mee and Matthew Sangster

Reviewed by Paul Keen

Caricature and Realism in the Romantic Novel, by Olivia Ferguson

Reviewed by Ian Haywood

Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity, by Catherine Packham

Reviewed by Elizabeth Frazer

Wordsworth’s Trauma and Poetry: 1793–1803, by Richard E. Matlak

Reviewed by Philip Shaw

Lawrie Todd: or The Settlers in the Woods, by John Galt. Edited by Regina Hewitt

Reviewed by Rhona Brown 

Kirkyard Romanticism: Death, Modernity and Scottish Literature in the Nineteenth Century, by Sarah Sharp

Reviewed by Silke Stroh

Regional Romanticism: Literature and Southwest Scotland, c. 1770–1830, by Gerard Lee McKeever

Reviewed by Dana Graham Lai

Bogle Corbet: or the Emigrants, by John Galt. Edited by Katie Trumpener

Reviewed by Holly Faith Nelson

Update: Call for Papers: Next Issues of Studies in Hogg and his World

 Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

The next issue of Studies in Hogg and his World is on the subject of “Unsettling Scottish Literature,” with the intentional play on the idea of “unsettling.” This issue is affiliated with the upcoming research workshop Unsettling Scottish Studies, to be held at Simon Fraser University in November 2024, the first international multi-disciplinary workshop dedicated to decolonizing Scottish Studies. However, the issue will include articles, pedagogical papers, and notes that address all sorts of ways that Scottish literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries does, or should, unsettle. Studies in Hogg and his World is a peer-reviewed print journal. Therefore, all articles, pedagogical papers, and notes submitted will undergo the double-blind peer review process. Submissions should be made on or before September 1, 2025, to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca.     

About Studies in Hogg and his World     

Studies in Hogg and his World was established in 1990. Its founding editor was Dr Gillian Hughes, the eminent James Hogg scholar, author of James Hogg: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2007), and editor, co-editor, or associate editor of a great many volumes of Hogg's works for the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Dr Hughes edited twenty-one issues of Studies in Hogg in his World before handing over the editorship in 2010 to Dr Hans de Groot (1939-2019), Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, the editor of the Stirling / South Carolina edition of James Hogg's Highland Journeys, and author of scholarly articles and book chapters on Hogg's works. With the passing of Dr de Groot in 2019, the editorship was taken up by Dr Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English at Trinity Western University, co-editor, with Dr. Sharon Alker, of James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Dr Alker, of a series of articles and book chapters on the life and works of James Hogg published over the past two decades.

James Hogg’s Gravestone Restored at Last

If you read this blog regularly, you’ll have seen earlier posts (5/7/20; 1/3/21; 1/5/21) reporting that James Hogg’s gravestone in Ettrick Kirkyard had been laid flat on health and safety grounds.

The good news is that the stone is now upright once again after close to five years. The photo below, which was taken by Hogg’s great-great-great-granddaughter Perrine Gilkison, shows the stone back in its proper position.

 

The thanks of all admirers of Hogg and his works go to Thomas Brown & Sons, the Melrose firm of Funeral Directors that generously carried out the restoration free of charge. Thanks must also go to John Nichol, Vicky Davidson and Daphne Jackson and their associates who have been actively promoting the restoration project over the years.

It is planned that money that was earlier contributed to restoring the gravestone will be used to fund a plaque in the churchyard that will transcribe the weathered inscription on it.

Call for Submissions: Studies in Hogg and his World

 

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

The next issue of Studies in Hogg and his World is on the subject of “Unsettling Scottish Literature,” with the intentional play on the idea of “unsettling.” This issue is affiliated with the upcoming research workshop Unsettling Scottish Studies, to be held at Simon Fraser University in November 2024, the first international multi-disciplinary workshop dedicated to decolonizing Scottish Studies. However, the issue will include articles, pedagogical papers, and notes that address all sorts of ways that Scottish literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries does, or should, unsettle. Studies in Hogg and his World is a peer-reviewed print journal. Therefore, all articles, pedagogical papers, and notes submitted will undergo the double-blind peer review process. Submissions should be made on or before August 30, 2025 to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca.     

About Studies in Hogg and his World     

Studies in Hogg and his World was established in 1990. Its founding editor was Dr Gillian Hughes, the eminent James Hogg scholar, author of James Hogg: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2007), and editor, co-editor, or associate editor of a great many volumes of Hogg's works for the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Dr Hughes edited twenty-one issues of Studies in Hogg in his World before handing over the editorship in 2010 to Dr Hans de Groot (1939-2019), Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, the editor of the Stirling / South Carolina edition of James Hogg's Highland Journeys, and author of scholarly articles and book chapters on Hogg's works. With the passing of Dr de Groot in 2019, the editorship was taken up by Dr Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English at Trinity Western University, co-editor, with Dr. Sharon Alker, of James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Dr Alker, of a series of articles and book chapters on the life and works of James Hogg published over the past two decades.

Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company: Upcoming Guided Walk

The  Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company has announced that it is "planning a guided walk from Ettrick to St. Mary's Loch to mark 200 years since Confessions was published with a stop at Cowan's Croft, the possible location of the 'Suicide's Grave.'" 

The walk will be held on Saturday, July 20th, 2024. Participants will meet at, and leave from, Honey Cottage in Ettrick at 11:00 a.m.  "Lifts from the Loch will be provided back to Ettrick.  Feel free to bring along a picnic." This will be a 2-3 hour walk with free views." The walk will finish inside Tibbie Shiels Inn for refreshments and hopefully some readings. 

All donations made will go to "the upkeep of the James Hogg Exhibition."  

If you want to receive more information or to book a spot,  please call 07846 505630 or e-mail info@ettrickandyarrow.org.uk .

"The more southerly Ettrick Hills from Ettrick Pen. [L-R]: Loch Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Craig, West Knowe and Croft Head." Courtesy of Wikipedia. 

Edinburgh International Book Festival: 200 Years of the James Hogg's 'Justified Sinner'

2024 marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Hogg’s The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. To mark the anniversary, this year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival includes a special series of six events, which, according to its website, ‘re-examine and reimagine this story, and its bold exploration of the darkest parts of the human soul’.

Events highlighted on the website include:

Grid Iron’s immersive audio and video journey bringing to life pivotal moments from the novel, rescripted by award-winning author Louise Welsh.

New Myths, in which storyteller Kirsty Logan, folksinger Kirsty Law and harpist Esther Swift reimagine the novel in contemporary times through the story of Gillian Tod, who grows up in a cult, drawing on everything from Scottish folk history, feminism and Naomi Klein.

A further layer added to the 2013 theatre piece Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner, when its writer and director reconstruct the text, and their original production, in a Performance Essay in co-production with National Theatre of Scotland for ‘a suitably meta-interpretation that is part-lecture, part-documentary, part-theatre’.

Ian Rankin and Ever Dundas in a Justified Sinner Book Club panel discussion, Cut Up the Justified Sinner poetry workshops, and a special Close Read event with James Robertson, author of the Confessions-influenced novel The Testament of Gideon Mack.

Further details of the Justified Sinner events can be found at https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on/themes/confessions-374 null

This year’s Edinburgh International Book Festival runs from 10-25 August. Full details of the programme, including how to book, are on the Festival website https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival/whats-on Booking opens on 20 June.

 

New Issue of Studies in Hogg and his World

Studies in Hogg and his World

Issue Numbers 31-32, 2022-2023

 

ARTICLES

 

The Ettrick Shepherd Across the British Empire

Barbara Leonardi

 

Identifying Gil-Martin: A Fairy Reading of Hogg’s Justified Sinner

Joshua Dobbs

 

James Hogg in the Ettrick Landscape

Louise Murray, Stephen Pierpoint, and D’Maris Coffman

 

NOTES

 

Characterising John Galt’s ‘Bandana’

Regina Hewitt

 

Further Light on Hogg and the Laidlaws

Gillian Hughes

 

REVIEWS

 

Gerard Lee McKeever, Dialectics of Improvement: Scottish Romanticism, 1786–1831

Reviewed by Kenneth McNeil

 

Kenneth McNeil, Scottish Romanticism and Collective Memory in the British Atlantic

Reviewed by Megan Coyer

 

Barbara Leonardi, Marriage in James Hogg’s Work: Plotting for Gender, Class, and Ethnic Equality

Reviewed by Meiko O’Halloran

 

Murray Pittock, Scotland: The Global History 1603 to the Present

Reviewed by Richard Finlay

 

The Ayrshire Legatees, The Steam-Boat, The Gathering of the West, by John Galt

Edited by Mark Parker

Reviewed by Craig Lamont

 

Contributions to Scottish Periodicals, by James Hogg

Edited by Graham Tulloch and Judy King

Reviewed by Holly Faith Nelson

 

Peter’s Letters to his Kinsfolk, by John Gibson Lockhart

Edited by P. D. Garside and Gillian Hughes

Reviewed by Nick Smith

ITV News: "Remembering the Life and Work of Scottish poet James Hogg"

For a video on James Hogg and the Scottish Borders, see ITV News article and video on "Remembering the Life and Work of Scottish poet James Hogg" (26 July 2023): https://www.itv.com/news/border/2023-07-26/remembering-the-life-and-work-of-scottish-poet-james-hogg   Learn about the new Hogg trail which Barbara Harrison, from the area's Tourist Association describes as follows: "What we wanted to do was to develop a route around the valleys that would showcase the valleys through the eyes of James Hogg and his poetry and the places he lived and worked." 

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World (Fall 2023 Issue)

 

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

 

For its next issue, Studies in Hogg and his World seeks articles on works composed by a wide range of Scottish authors during the years that James Hogg was actively publishing: 1801-1835. Articles on Scottish working-class and / or women authors are especially welcome, as are those that connect the works of the Scottish author under study with those of Hogg (although this is not essential). As usual, the journal also seeks articles on the life and writings of Hogg for the upcoming issue, which is scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2023.  Studies in Hogg and his World is a peer-reviewed print journal. Therefore, all articles, pedagogical papers, and notes submitted will undergo the double-blind peer review process. Submissions should be made on or before May 30, 2023 to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca.     

 

About Studies in Hogg and his World     

Studies in Hogg and his World was established in 1990. Its founding editor was Dr Gillian Hughes, the eminent James Hogg scholar, author of James Hogg: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2007), and editor, co-editor, or associate editor of a great many volumes of Hogg's works for the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Dr Hughes edited twenty-one issues of Studies in Hogg in his World before handing over the editorship in 2010 to Dr Hans de Groot (1939-2019), Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, the editor of the Stirling / South Carolina edition of James Hogg's Highland Journeys, and author of scholarly articles and book chapters on Hogg's works. With the passing of Dr de Groot in 2019, the editorship was taken up by Dr Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English at Trinity Western University, co-editor, with Dr. Sharon Alker, of James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Dr Alker, of a series of articles and book chapters on the life and works of James Hogg published over the past two decades.

"The First Complete Edition of Peter’s Letters since 1819" Available Soon

There is exciting news in the world of Lockhart Studies!

It has been more than 200 years since a complete edition of Peter's Letters to his Kinsolk has been published!  A new edition -- edited, annotated, and introduced by esteemed scholars of Scottish Romanticism, P.D. Garside and Gillian Hughes -- will soon be available at Edinburgh University Press. For more information and a 30% discount, see the flyer below. 

James Hogg’s “The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish Mask”

Here is the Scottish Poetry Library's advertisement for an upcoming event you may be interested in attending if you are in Edinburgh on December 2, 2022. 

James Hogg’s “The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish Mask”

A rehearsed reading, with songs

Friday 2 December, 7 p.m., Scottish Poetry Library, Canongate, Edinburgh. Tickets £5.

There are fairies, and brownies, and shades Amazonian,
Of harper, and sharper, and old Cameronian:—
Some small as pigmies,—some tall as a steeple,—
The spirits are all gone as mad as the people.
—James Hogg, “The Royal Jubilee”

On 14 August 1822, as George IV arrived on his ‘jaunt’ to Edinburgh, James Hogg published a new play: “The Royal Jubilee: A Scottish Mask”. The Jubilee is set – like key scenes in Hogg’s best-known work The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – on Arthur’s Seat. This live rehearsed reading with songs is – in the absence of any evidence otherwise –the first time the play has ever been performed since its publication 200 years ago.

Introduced by Valentina Bold (who edited the “Jubilee” in 1994) and Kirsteen McCue (editor of Hogg’s Songs), the reading will be by a cast including Jo Miller, Dolina MacLennan, Ajay Close, Sheena Wellington and SPL director Asif Khan.

https://tickets.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/.../764:122/

Treasure Trove of Letters Discovered: James Hogg Connection

A discovery has been made of hundreds of letters written by a lawyer, George Craig, from the Scottish borders to myriad correspondents. James Hogg was among his clientele. To read more on this discovery, click on the link to the BBC News article 'Long Lost Letters Shine New Light on 1800s Borders Life.'

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World (Fall 2023 Issue)

Call for Papers: Studies in Hogg and his World 

 

For its next issue, Studies in Hogg and his World seeks articles on works composed by a wide range of Scottish authors during the years that James Hogg was actively publishing: 1801-1835. Articles on Scottish working-class and / or women authors are especially welcome, as are those that connect the works of the Scottish author under study with those of Hogg (although this is not essential). As usual, the journal also seeks articles on the life and writings of Hogg for the upcoming issue, which is scheduled for publication in the Fall of 2023.  Studies in Hogg and his World is a peer-reviewed print journal. Therefore, all articles, pedagogical papers, and notes submitted will undergo the double-blind peer review process. Submissions should be made on or before May 30, 2023 to Dr. Holly Faith Nelson at Holly.Nelson@twu.ca.     

 

About Studies in Hogg and his World     

Studies in Hogg and his World was established in 1990. Its founding editor was Dr Gillian Hughes, the eminent James Hogg scholar, author of James Hogg: A Life (Oxford University Press, 2007), and editor, co-editor, or associate editor of a great many volumes of Hogg's works for the Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg. Dr Hughes edited twenty-one issues of Studies in Hogg in his World before handing over the editorship in 2010 to Dr Hans de Groot (1939-2019), Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto, the editor of the Stirling / South Carolina edition of James Hogg's Highland Journeys, and author of scholarly articles and book chapters on Hogg's works. With the passing of Dr de Groot in 2019, the editorship was taken up by Dr Holly Faith Nelson, Professor of English at Trinity Western University, co-editor, with Dr. Sharon Alker, of James Hogg and the Literary Marketplace: Scottish Romanticism and the Working-Class Author (Ashgate, 2009; Routledge, 2018), and co-author, with Dr Alker, of a series of articles and book chapters on the life and works of James Hogg published over the past two decades.

New Issue of Studies in Hogg and his World

 

Studies in Hogg and His World

Issues 29-30 (2020-2021)

Contents

Douglas Gifford 1940-2020 

DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR INVITED ESSAY 

Extreme Pastoral: James Hogg and Other Animals

Ian Duncan 

ARTICLES 

Hogg and Hogg, Hogg on Hogg: Finding a Place in the Pantheon of Poets

Graham Tulloch 

An Ettrick Shepherd in London: Bringing the Margins to the Metropolis

Duncan Hotchkiss 

The Plagues o’ the Land: James Hogg, Witchcraft, and the Unsettling of Enlightenment Narratives of History in ‘The Witches of Traquair’ and ‘The Hunt of Eildon’

Mari Ulvestad Komnaes

NOTE 

Further Letters from Hogg to the Laidlaws of Blackhouse

Gillian Hughes 

REVIEWS 

Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, by Walter Scott

Edited by Ainsley McIntosh

The Shorter Poems, by Walter Scott

Edited by P. D. Garside and Gillian Hughes

Reviewed by Graham Tulloch

Romantic Periodicals in the Twenty-First Century: Eleven Case Studies from ‘Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine’

Edited by Nicholas Mason and Tom Mole

Reviewed by Thomas C. Richardson 

Contributions to English, Irish, and American Periodicals

Edited by Adrian Hunter, with associate editor Barbara Leonardi

Reviewed by Dana Graham Lai 

Daniel Cook, Walter Scott and Short Fiction

Reviewed by Graham Tulloch 

Some Passages in the Life of Mr Adam Blair, Minister of the Gospel at Cross-Meikle, by John Gibson Lockhart

Edited by Thomas C. Richardson

Reviewed by Robin MacLachlan

 

Article on the Grave of James Hogg in The Sunday Times.

For those readers interested in the current state of the grave of James Hogg, you may want to read the new article in The Sunday Times: "James Hogg's Grave Left 'Desecrated' by Safety Rules" (if you have access to the paper). 

If you would like to contribute to the appeal to restore the headstone of James Hogg and other headstones in Ettrick Kirkyard, you can make a donation through the James Hogg Exhibition bank account with the Bank of Scotland. The name of the account is 'Friends of Ettrick School', the sort Code is 80-18-66 and the account number is 06001256. Or you can contact Vicky Davidson, the Coordinator of the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company at vicky@ettrickandyarrow.org.uk.  

Any sum, however, small, would be incredibly helpful. 

James and Margaret Hogg’s Gravestones

As the Blog post on 5 July 2020 reported, James Hogg's gravestone in Ettrick Kirkyard is currently laid flat along with nearly fifty others, because of health and safety concerns. It is estimated that £20,000 is needed to restore the Kirkyard to the state it needs to be in. If you would like to contribute to the Kirkyard restoration, you’ll find details below.

 

In the meantime, there is good news about the headstone in Warriston Cemetery, Edinburgh that commemorates Hogg’s widow Margaret and two of the couple’s children. Like her husband’s, Margaret’s headstone had been laid flat. Thanks to a contribution from the James Hogg Society, it has now been restored to its original position, despite the pandemic and some terrible weather.

 

As the Before and After photos show, it now stands ready to withstand the ravages of time for the foreseeable future.

Before

After

 

If you would like to contribute to the appeal to restore the headstone of James Hogg and other headstones in Ettrick Kirkyard, you can make a donation through the James Hogg Exhibition bank account with the Bank of Scotland. The name of the account is ‘Friends of Ettrick School’, the sort Code is 80-18-66 and the account number is 06001256. Or you can contact Vicky Davidson, the Coordinator of the Ettrick and Yarrow Community Development Company at vicky@ettrickandyarrow.org.uk

Any sum, however small, would be incredibly helpful, as a belated celebration of Hogg’s 250^th anniversary year.

--Robin MacLachlan

 

FREE EVENT: The Shepherd and the Shirra: James Hogg and Walter Scott at 250

As one literary anniversary closes, another begins. In an online event sponsored by the National Library of Scotland, award-winning writer James Robertson and cultural critic Valentina Bold are discussing James Hogg, ‘The Ettrick Shepherd’ (1770 – 1835), and Walter Scott, ‘The Great Unknown’ and ‘The Shirra’ (1771 - 1832). Original, innovative and skilled, they were almost exact contemporaries: Borderers at heart, but from very different backgrounds. This event explores the lives and works of these Scottish writers of international significance, and celebrates their distinctive legacies in poetry and prose, from The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner to the Waverley novels.

This free event is taking place on Thursday 11 February 2021 from 1700 to 1800 (UK time). Further details about registering for it can be found at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-shepherd-and-the-shirra-james-hogg-and-walter-scott-at-250-tickets-136304359007

--Robin MacLachlan

For those who missed the event, it can now be viewed on YouTube (hosted by the National Library of Scotland).

A Recent Article on James Hogg on BBC.Com

James Hogg. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

A recent article has just been published on the importance of James Hogg in helping to form Scottish fiction. Our readers may find it interesting. To access it, click on the link below:

Giancarlo Rinaldo, "James Hogg, The Shepherd Who Helped to Shape Scottish Fiction," BBC.Com, 30 November, 2020.