Contributions to English, Irish and American Periodicals

Barbara Leonardi earned her AHRC-funded PhD from the University of Stirling, winning the 2013 Ross Roy Medal for the best doctoral thesis in Scottish literature. From 2014-17, she served as Research Assistant on the AHRC-funded project “James Hogg: Contributions to International Periodicals.” She specialises in the 19th-century periodical press; the Romantic novel; gender, class, and race in the long 19th-century; and pragmatic linguistics applied to literature. She has published on Hogg, Walter Scott and Mary Wollstonecraft; is a reviewer for The Year’s Work in English Studies; and edited Intersections of Gender, Class, and Race in the Long Nineteenth Century and Beyond (Palgrave, 2018). James Hogg was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. He is best known for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. Adrian Hunter is Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling. He is author of The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (2007), and of several articles and chapters on British and North American short fiction. He is currently editing a volume of James Hogg’s contributions to international periodicals for the definitive Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of Hogg’s work, also published by Edinburgh University Press.

At last, a volume of Hogg’s works that reveals his remarkable national and international reach and influence. This carefully edited and comprehensively annotated collection of Hogg’s contributions to periodicals in England, Ireland, and North America vividly demonstrates that the appeal of the Ettrick Shepherd outside of Scotland resulted from his unparalleled mastery of a range of dialects, genres and modes, and subject matter.

• Introduction1809The Long Pack1814A Night Piece1817birth-Day of Mr Pitt1825John Paterson’s MareScenes of Other Worlds. No. 1King William and the Duke of Cumberland1827The True Art of Reviewing1829The banshee1831bonny Mary GrayWhere Am I Gaun?Come Down the brae Donald. A Jacobite SongMy brotherCuddy Clew; A Pastoralballad of the Lord Maxwell1832A Scottish balladA Tale of an Old HighlanderA Good Story of a Glasgow TailorO Kitty Dinna Frown on MeReview of Original Songs by Robert GilfillanSome Terrible Letters from Scotland. Communicated by the Ettrick ShepherdWillie Wastle and His Dog Trap1834Historical ballads — No. IThe Queen of France and James IVHistorical ballads — No. I"The White Rose of Scotland "The Choice; and the Story of the Minister’s Annie1835bruce and the SpiderTales of Fathers and DaughtersTales of Fathers and Daughters No 2 [manuscript version]1841The Rose of PloraAppendix: Reprintings of Hogg’s Works OverseasTextual and Explanatory NotesGlossary