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References
- ↑ James Hogg, The Spy, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2000), xxvii.
- ↑ Ibid., xxxii.
- ↑ Ibid., xx‒xxvii.
- ↑ The Collected Letters of James Hogg: Volume 1 1800‒1819, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2004), 105: Hogg to Walter Scott, 8 September [1810].
- ↑ 'Memoir of the Author's Life', in James Hogg, Altrive Tales, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2003), 25.
- ↑ The passage quoted appeared as the greater part of C. A., 'On the Desire of Pleasing' , The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, 97 (July 1793), 28‒31 (29‒31).
- ↑ See James Hogg, The Queen's Wake, ed. Douglas S. Mack (Edinburgh, 2004), lxxxi (note 49) and The Collected Letters of James Hogg, Volume 1: 1800–1819, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2004), 151–52.