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The statue to the right is on St. Mary's loch in Ettrick, Selkirkshire where his family lived later. Unfortunately the house is no longer there but the statue of Hogg sits on the site. James Hogg's Monument stands almost opposite St. Mary's Cottage. It was dedicated on June 28th 1860, having been made by a Mr. Andrew Currie, FSA 1770, Ettrick, Selkirkshire - 21 November 1835 Poet known as the Ettrick Shepherd, James Hogg spent most of his youth and manhood as a shepherd and was almost entirely self education. He had learned, at his mother's knee, the great oral tradition of ballads and folklore of the Borders. And her father, "the far-famed Will O'Phaup" was reputed to have been the last man to converse with the fairies. His talent for writing was discovered by Sir Walter Scott, who was then the sheriff of Selkirk. It is said that James Hogg and his mother supplied Sir Walter Scott with material for Scott's "Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border" Click
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Hogg's Books
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Links
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Books Available by James Hogg Confessions of a Justified Sinner... The Confessions of a Justified Sinner |
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