| Evidence: | 'Robert has in several instances spoiled the effect of the tales at the close by winding them too abruptly up The Marvellous Doctor is quite ruined for though previously shortened one half to suit Maga that was no reason the other half should now have been withheld'. |
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| Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
| Date: | Until: 10 Mar 1829 | ||||||||||
| Country: | Scotland | ||||||||||
| Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
| Place: | specific address: Mount Benger | ||||||||||
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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: | author / farmer |
| 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: | James Hogg |
| Title: | Shepherd's Calendar, The |
| Genre: | Fiction |
| Form of Text: | Print: Book |
| Publication details: | published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827-8) and as a volume 1829. |
| Provenance: | owned |
| Record ID: | 18929 | |
| 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: | 328 | |
| Additional comments: | n/a |
| Citation: | James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 328, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=18929, accessed: 02 June 2023 | |
| Letter to William Blackwood. The volume had been edited by Hogg's nephew Robert. |
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