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Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott, a memoir by James Hogg, was published in New York in 1834.

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Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott

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Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott, a memoir by James Hogg, was published in New York in 1834. The origins of Familiar Anecdotes can be traced back...

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Blue bonnet

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from the Journalism of James Boswell, 2014, p.120 Ross, From Scenes Like These, 2000, p.155 Hogg, Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott, 1834, p.241 "Scotch...

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Walter Scott

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Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSAScot (15 August 1771 – 21 September 1832), was a Scottish novelist, poet and historian. Many of his works remain...

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The Brownie of Bodsbeck

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'Memoir of the Author's Life' in Altrive Tales, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2003), 45‒46. Compare Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott in James...

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Margaret Laidlaw

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songs of spectres, ghosts, fairies, brownies, voices, &c". In James Hogg's Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott (1834), Laidlaw commented on Walter Scott's...

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James Hogg

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essays) Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott (1834) (memoir) A Series of Lay Sermons (1834) (moral and religious discourses) The Brownie of Bodsbeck...

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The Spirit of the Age

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Scott's "works (taken together) are almost like a new edition of human nature. This is indeed to be an author!" —William Hazlitt, "Sir Walter Scott"...

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Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft

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study of witchcraft and the supernatural by Sir Walter Scott. A lifelong student of folklore, Scott was able to draw on a wide-ranging collection of primary...

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Ringo Starr

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Sir Richard Starkey MBE (born 7 July 1940), known professionally as Ringo Starr, is an English musician, songwriter and actor who achieved international...

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Robin Hood

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this idea of Robin are Jacques Nicolas Augustin Thierry's Histoire de la Conquête de l'Angleterre par les Normands (1825) and Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe...

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English literature

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other playwright. In the nineteenth century Sir Walter Scott's historical romances inspired a generation of painters, composers, and writers throughout...

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Genre fiction

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works written with the intent of fitting into a specific literary genre in order to appeal to readers and fans already familiar with that genre. The main...

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John Dennys

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Dennys by Rev. H.N. Ellacombe of Bitton. Sir Harris Nicholas reported that he was the younger son of Sir Walter Dennys of Pucklechurch and Agnes Danvers...

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Hera

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patriarchal bond of her own subordination: her resistance to the conquests of Zeus is rendered as Hera's "jealousy", the main theme of literary anecdotes that undercut...

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The Gray Champion

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became part of folklore. Hawthorne may have been familiar with Hutchinson's account, but the direct model for "The Gray Champion" was Walter Scott's historical...

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List of atheists in science and technology

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Mathematical Apocrypha: Stories and Anecdotes of Mathematicians and the Mathematical. Mathematical Association of America. p. 202. ISBN 978-0-88385-539-3...

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Art of the United Kingdom

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scene for most of the period, and his copious notebooks were adapted and published in the 1760s by Horace Walpole as Some Anecdotes of Painting in England...

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Laurence Olivier

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immature production of mine, with Olivier outrageously amusing as Sir Toby and a very young Alec Guinness outrageous and more amusing as Sir Andrew". Henry...

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Seppuku

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everything. A member of his second council went to him and said, "Sir, the only way for you now to retrieve the honor of the family of Tokugawa is to disembowel...

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National Liberal Club

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Sir Ramaswami Srinivasa Sarma, Indian politician and journalist. Sir Stewart Schneider, Solicitor-General of Ceylon, 1917. C. P. Scott, editor of the...

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Don Bradman

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seen in his familiar place at the Adelaide Oval again. In an oft-recited anecdote, Tendulkar was impressed with Bradman's sharpness and sense of humour at...

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Opal

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publication of Sir Walter Scott's Anne of Geierstein in 1829, opal acquired a less auspicious reputation. In Scott's novel, the Baroness of Arnheim wears...

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Kilkenny cats

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Charles Montagu-Scott, 4th Duke of (1930). "Decr. 16th, 1816.". In Partington, Wilfred (ed.). The private letter-books of Sir Walter Scott; selections from...

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Historical figure

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author of a traditional historical novel should therefore focus more on the people who have been lost to history. A novelist such as Sir Walter Scott or Leo...

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List of last words

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status unknown (link) Trevelyan, Raleigh (2002). Sir Walter Raleigh. McNeely, Ben (30 August 2012). "Sir Walter Raleigh: The Oak City's Namesake and Inspiration"...

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Invention of radio

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506 Marconi had adopted this way of increasing the available energy, the potentials attainable by his now familiar arrangement being exceedingly high...

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