James Hogg

He became widely known as the ’Ettrick Shepherd’, a nickname under which some of his works were published, and the character name he was given in the widely read series Noctes Ambrosianae, published in Blackwood’s Magazine. He is best known today for his novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner. His other works include the long poem The Queen’s Wake (1813), his collection of songs Jacobite Relics (1819), and his two novels The Three Perils of Man (1822), and The Three Perils of Woman (1823).

Today an exhibition dedicated to James Hogg can be found at the former Ettrick School in the Ettrick Valley, as well as material in Sir Walter Scott’s Courtroom in Selkirk.