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References
- ↑ James Hogg, A Queer Book, ed. P. D. Garside (Edinburgh, 1995), xiii.
- ↑ Ibid., xiii‒xvi; The Collected Letters of James Hogg: Volume 2 1820‒1831, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2006), 433: Hogg to William Blackwood, 15 March 1831.
- ↑ Garside, op. cit., xi, xxi.
- ↑ James Hogg, Mador of the Moor, ed. James E. Barcus (Edinburgh, 2005), 23–27, 87–95.
- ↑ Ibid., xii, xxvi.