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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... turned out to rely , as Hogg's critics kept reminding him , upon a radical separation of his poetic powers from ... turned Border laird on the strength of a sentimental investment in his ancestry . Here the hireling shepherd turned Edin ...
... turned out to rely , as Hogg's critics kept reminding him , upon a radical separation of his poetic powers from ... turned Border laird on the strength of a sentimental investment in his ancestry . Here the hireling shepherd turned Edin ...
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... turned , his visits to his neglected sister were renewed , after having been dis- continued for many years , while at the same time , her circumstances appeared to be bettering every day , as did also those of her lodger , who every ...
... turned , his visits to his neglected sister were renewed , after having been dis- continued for many years , while at the same time , her circumstances appeared to be bettering every day , as did also those of her lodger , who every ...
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... turned towards me ; I never could read to any purpose that way ; so I was obliged to sit excessively close to her ... turning the leaf until I cried - Now . I still could not see very well , and crept a little closer to her side . I even ...
... turned towards me ; I never could read to any purpose that way ; so I was obliged to sit excessively close to her ... turning the leaf until I cried - Now . I still could not see very well , and crept a little closer to her side . I even ...
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