Winter Evening Tales: Collected Among the Cottagers in the South of ScotlandEdinburgh University Press, 2002 - 601 pages "Hogg left a written record of three of his many journeys to the Highlands, those of 1802, 1803 and 1804, and in Highland Journeys he offers a thoughtful and deeply-felt response to the Highland Clearances. He gives vivid pictures of his experiences, including a narrow escape from a Navy press-gang, and a Sacrament day with one minister preaching in English and another in Gaelic. Hogg also explains aspects of Gaelic culture such as the waulking songs, and he describes the trade in kelp, lucrative to the landowners but back-breaking and ill-paid for the workers. Highland Journeys makes a refreshing contribution to our understanding of early nineteenth-century travel writing"--Publisher description. |
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... Border Sheriff and Laird - of a local landowner . Elaine Petrie has offered the ingenious and plausible suggestion that J. H. Craig of Douglas ' is a cipher for J [ ames ] H [ ogg ] [ writing from ] Craig of Douglas , the name of a hill ...
... Border Sheriff and Laird - of a local landowner . Elaine Petrie has offered the ingenious and plausible suggestion that J. H. Craig of Douglas ' is a cipher for J [ ames ] H [ ogg ] [ writing from ] Craig of Douglas , the name of a hill ...
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... border flower he told me , that she was an only daughter by a second marriage ; that a maternal uncle of hers , who had been an under - clerk in a counting - house in Liverpool , and by a long life of parsimony had amassed a ...
... border flower he told me , that she was an only daughter by a second marriage ; that a maternal uncle of hers , who had been an under - clerk in a counting - house in Liverpool , and by a long life of parsimony had amassed a ...
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... Border reiver Peres Cockburn at his own gate , according to an inaccurate tradition transmitted in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ( Lament of the Border Widow ' , III , 80-82 ) and repeated by Hogg in Note XVII to The Queen's Wake ...
... Border reiver Peres Cockburn at his own gate , according to an inaccurate tradition transmitted in Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border ( Lament of the Border Widow ' , III , 80-82 ) and repeated by Hogg in Note XVII to The Queen's Wake ...
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