James Hogg

James Hogg was born in 1770 in a valley in the south of Scotland, the son of a ruined farmer, and was herding sheep from the age of seven. He had only a few months of schooling and taught himself to write, in his twenties. He went up to Edinburgh, where men of letters received him as a curiosity and called him the Ettrick Shepherd, a name he turned to his own advantage in the magazines. He published poems, novels and songs, was ruined twice, and died in 1835.

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• NovelThe Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerJames Hogg · 1824Literature