| Evidence: | 'Send me word directly about Wilson's success. I cannot tell you how anxious I am about. I would not even wish him to know how anxious I am about as I look on it to be a desiderratum in his literary life. It is a most friendly review and will help the sale of the tales greatly but the Magazine on the whole is not a superior one. The first article is however [italics] very good [end italics]' |
||||||||||
| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Between 1 May 1820 and 1 Jun 1820 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | city: Altrive | ||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Reader): |
|
||||||||||
| Type of Experience (Listener): |
|
||||||||||
| 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: | John Wilson |
| Title: | [ review of 'Hogg's Tales, &c.'] |
| Genre: | Essays / Criticism |
| Form of Text: | Print: Serial / periodical |
| Publication details: | Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, May 1820 |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18859 | |
| 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: | 30 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 30, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18859, accessed: 25 March 2023 | |
| Letter to William Blackwood. Attribution of review to Wilson is only tentative; his 'success' was in an election to a Chair of Moral Philosophy' at Edinburgh. |
Reading Experience Database version 2.0. Page updated: 27th Apr 2016 3:15pm (GMT)