num_pages: 224
description: After Scott's death in 1832 James Hogg wrote an affectionate but frank account of their long friendship. Scott's son-in-law and official biographer, John Gibson Lockhart, declared himself to be filled with 'utter disgust and loathing' at the 'beastly and abominable things' he found it to contain.This edition includes both the original version, written as a contribution to a Scott biography planned by a young London friend of Hogg's, and a revised version created subsequently for an American market. Those with an interest in Romantic biography and autobiography will be particularly fascinated by these lively, readable, idiosyncratic and disconcerting texts. A wealth of information is provided in this volume, which also includes a useful Hogg chronology and reading list.
language: English
title: Anecdotes of Scott
titlecomplete: Anecdotes of Scott (The Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg)
characters: Walter Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg
genres: Biography
ratings_count: 4
places: Scotland
series: The Collected Works of James Hogg
publisher: Edinburgh University Press