Contributions to Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country
James Hogg
Edited by Megan Coyer
The first complete edition of James Hogg’s contributions to Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country
- Collects previously uncollected writings by a key Scottish author
- Provides comprehensive scholarly introduction and notes
- Includes a glossary of unfamiliar terms
In the final years of James Hogg’s life, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country became the most important outlet for his shorter writings, usurping the previous centrality of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. This volume collects for the first time his many and various contributions to the magazine and presents them in a reliable scholarly form, complete with a wide-ranging introduction, explanatory notes, appendices and glossary. Building on other volumes in The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition, Contributions to Fraser’s Magazine highlights Hogg’s expansion into the London literary marketplace and his reception as a Scottish author south of the Tweed, as well as the beginnings of his posthumous memorialisation.
List of Figures
Introduction
Contributions to Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, 1830–1836
February 1830–January 1831 (Volumes 1–2)
The Flower of Annisley
I Hae Naebody Now
The Lass o’ Carlisle
Lines for the Eye of the Beautiful Miss E. B.
The Unearthly Witness
Strange Letter of a Lunatic
February 1831–January 1832 (Volumes 3–4)
Geordie Scott
The Barber of Duncow.—A Real Ghost Story
Disagreeables
Aunt Susan
Crawford John
On the Separate Existence of the Soul
February–December 1832 (Volumes 5–6)
The Twa Burdies
One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty-one
The Elder in Love
The Mountain-Dew Men
This Warld’s an Unco Bonny Place
Ewan M‘Gabhar
January–December 1833 (Volumes 7–8)
An Auld Wife’s Dream
A Remarkable Egyptian Story
The Shepherd’s Noctes [Manuscript Version]
The Shepherd’s Noctes, and the Reason Why They Do Not Appear in Fraser’s Magazine
The Miller Correspondence. XXVII.—James Hogg
January–December 1834 (Volumes 9–10)
Extraordinary History of a Border Beauty
[O saw ye ought o’ the Queen o’ Hearts]
The Frasers in the Correi
Love’s Legacy
January–December 1835 (Volumes 11–12)
Anecdotes of Ghosts and Apparitions. No. I and II
A Very Ridiculous Sermon
The Hunter of Comar
A Dream
The Three Sisters
The Chickens in the Corn
January–December 1836 (Volumes 13–14) [Posthumous]
The Turners
Helen Crocket
Appendix A:
Oliver Yorke’s Introduction to the Ettrick Shepherd’s Last Tale
Appendix B:
I. Works Attributed to Hogg for which Hogg’s Authorship is Unlikely, Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, 1830–1836
II. Biographical Articles, Fictive Depictions, and Reviews of Hogg’s Works in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, 1830–1836
Hyphenation List
Notes
Glossary
James Hogg clearly enjoyed being a ‘Fraserian’. In that ‘racy and spunky Magazine’ he was playful, tender, funny, political and daring. Megan Coyer’s expert editing and enlightening annotations bring new Hoggian treasures to light. This fine edition illuminates the literary culture of that fascinating transitional decade, the 1830s.
