Record Number: 18931

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'There is a new work lately come to my hand "The Jacobite Minstrelsy of Scotland" which is the most bare-faced plagiarism that ever was attempted. It is by a Griffin & Co Glasgow Nearly one half of the songs are my own genuine copyright attained by myself at great trouble and expense'

Century:

1800-1849

Date:

Between 1 Jan 1829 and 4 May 1829

Country:

Scotland

Time

n/a

Place:

specific address: Mount Benger

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

James Hogg

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

Nov 1770

Socio-Economic Group:

Clerk / tradesman / artisan / smallholder

Occupation:

author / farmer

Religion:

n/a

Country of Origin:

Scotland

Country of Experience:

Scotland

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

Jacobite Minstrelsy, with notes Illustrative of the Text, and Containing Historical Details in Relation to the House of Stuart from 1640-1784

Genre:

songs

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

n/a

Provenance

unknown

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Source Information:

Record ID:

18931

Source:

Print

Author:

James Hogg

Editor:

Gillian Hughes

Title:

Collected Letters of James Hogg, The

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh

Date of Publication:

2006

Vol:

II

Page:

341

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

James Hogg, Gillian Hughes (ed.), Collected Letters of James Hogg, The, (Edinburgh, 2006), II, p. 341, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=18931, accessed: 28 September 2024

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Additional Comments:

Letter to Robert Blackwood. Hogg's editors feel that quotations in this vol are, in fact, properly attributed to Hogg.