Evidence: | 'I should like much to address a song ode or sonnet to the authoress of Marriage &c and if I do it shall be to her as the sister of David Wilkie. Never was there such a painter as she is (if a she it be of which I have strong doubts) Sir W Scott's portraits are sometimes more strongly defined but they are not more unique and rarely or never so humourous [sic]. He can paint an individual well the hero of the story But can he paint a group like the family of the Fairbairns? No I defy him or any [italics] man [end italics] alive save David Wilkie as for [italics] women [end italics] there's no saying what [italics] they [end italics] can do when men and children are the objects. In short if the author of MARRIAGE and THE INHERITANCE be a woman I am in love with her and I authorise you to tell her so.'
[the letter has a postscript: 'You have sent the two [italics] first [end italics] vols of The Inheritance and I want the [italics] third [end italics] I return one'] |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | Until: 28 Jun 1824 | ||||||||||
Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
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Reader: | James Hogg |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Nov 1770 |
Socio-economic group: | Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder |
Occupation: | farmer / author |
Religion: | n/a |
Country of origin: | Scotland |
Country of experience: | Scotland |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | Susan Edmonstone Ferrier |
Title: | Marriage |
Genre: | Fiction |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | publ. 1818 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 18909 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | James Hogg | |
Editor: | Gillian Hughes | |
Title: | Collected Letters of James Hogg, The | |
Place of Publication: | Edinburgh | |
Date of Publication: | 2006 | |
Vol: | II | |
Page: | 202 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 202, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18909, accessed: 19 April 2024 |
Letter to William Blackwood. Work published anonymously. |
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