Introduction

Biography

James was the son of Ro­bert Hogg and Mar­ga­ret Laid­law, and hus­band of Mar­gar­et Phil­lips.

As a young man he worked as a shep­herd and farm hand, and was large­ly self edu­cat­ed through read­ing.

A po­et and no­vel­ist, Hogg wrote in Scots and Eng­lish. He was a friend of ma­ny of the great writ­ers of his day, in­clud­ing Wa­lter Scott.

Works

• Scottish Pas­tor­als, 1802
• The Moun­tain Bard, 1807
• The For­est Min­strel, 1810
• The Queen’s Wake, 1813
• The Brown­ie of Bods­beck, 1817
• Jacobite Rel­iques, 1819
• Poetical Works (Ed­in­burgh, Scot­land: A. Con­sta­ble, 1822)
• The Three Per­ils of Man, 1822
• The Three Per­ils of Wo­man, 1823
• The Pri­vate Mem­oirs and Con­fess­ions of a Jus­ti­fied Sin­ner, 1824
• The Do­mes­tic Man­ner and Pri­vate Life of Sir Wal­ter Scott, 1834
• Tales and Sketch­es of the Et­trick She­pherd, 1837