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53-558: The Edinburgh Philosophical Journal was published by Archibald Constable and Company, then in 1826 publication of the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal was taken on by Adam Black , later A & C Black of Edinburgh. The journal covered emerging scientific developments in chemistry, optics, electricity, magnetism, and natural history, as well as related topics including practical mechanics, inventions, and scientific instruments. As well as articles by

106-400: A scientific journal is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . See tips for writing articles about academic journals . Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page . Archibald Constable Archibald David Constable (24 February 1774 – 21 July 1827) was a Scottish publisher, bookseller and stationer. Constable was born at Carnbee , Fife , son of

159-456: 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). James Hogg was born on a small farm near Ettrick , Selkirkshire , Scotland in 1770 and was baptised there on 9 December, his actual date of birth having never been recorded. His father, Robert Hogg (1729–1820),

212-434: A local lending library. Hogg also began composing songs to be sung by local girls. He became a lifelong friend of his master's son, William Laidlaw, himself a minor writer and later the amanuensis of Walter Scott. It was at this time that Hogg, his eldest brother, and several cousins, formed a debating society of shepherds. Hogg first became familiar with the work of the recently deceased Robert Burns in 1797, after having

265-790: A major publishing firm such as Constables). They lived at 11 Thistle Street in Edinburgh's First New Town . Their son was also Archibald David Constable FRSE LLD (1843-1915), named after his grandfather, and followed in the family tradition as a printer. In 1865 he became a partner in the firm, and when Thomas retired in 1893 the firm continued under the name of T. & A. Constable. Their daughter, Elizabeth Constable (d.1818) married his junior publishing partner, Robert Cadell of Ratho . The character John Paterson ('the Bishop') in John Paterson's Mare , James Hogg 's allegorical satire on

318-526: A new departure in publishing by the generosity of his terms to authors. Writers for the Edinburgh Review were paid at an unprecedented rate, and Constable offered Scott 1000 guineas in advance for Marmion . In 1804 A. G. Hunter of Blackness joined Constable as partner, bringing considerable capital into the firm, which thereafter was styled Archibald Constable & Co . In 1805, jointly with Longman & Co. , Constable published Scott's Lay of

371-399: A reconciliation took place. Ballantyne was in difficulties, and Constable again became Scott's publisher, a condition being that the firm of John Ballantyne & Co. should be wound up at an early date, though Scott retained his interest in the printing business of James Ballantyne & Co. Around 1810 he bought a house at the head of Craigs Close, nearby his shop. The premises was previously

424-521: A series of original works, and of standard books republished in a cheap form, thus making one of the earliest and most famous attempts to popularize high-quality literature. Constable died of dropsy (which had plagued him for several years) at home, 3 Park Place in Edinburgh, on 21 July 1827, but his firm survived, and the Constable publishing business continued in the twentieth century, issuing

477-545: A sheep-grazer for other farmers, but his debts began to grow throughout 1808–1809. At the end of 1809 he began an affair with Margaret Beattie, and soon after absconded from his creditors, returning in disgrace to Ettrick. In 1810 Hogg moved to Edinburgh to start a literary career. In March 1810 his daughter by Margaret Beattie was born, christened Elizabeth Hogg in June. At the end of 1810 he met his future wife Margaret Phillips. His magazine The Spy , begun in 1810, ended after

530-565: A shepherd by Laidlaw's father, a farmer at Willenslee. He stayed here for two years, learning to read while tending sheep, and being given newspapers and theological works by his employer's wife. In 1790 he began ten years of service to James Laidlaw of Blackhouse in the Yarrow valley. Hogg later said that Laidlaw was more like a father to him than an employer. Seeing how hard he was working to improve himself, Laidlaw offered to help by making books available for Hogg from his own library, and through

583-477: A shepherd's assistant. His early experiences of literature and story telling came from the Bible and his mother's and uncle's stories. In 1784 he purchased a fiddle with money that he had saved, and taught himself how to play it. In 1785 he served a year working for a tenant farmer at Singlee. In 1786 he went to work for Mr. Laidlaw of Ellibank, staying with him for eighteen months. In 1788 he was given his first job as

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636-585: A son, Thomas, and a daughter, Elizabeth. Their son, Thomas Constable FRSE (1812-1881) took over his printing business on his father's death. In 1839 he was appointed printer and publisher in Edinburgh to Queen Victoria , and issued, among other notable series, Constable's Educational Series , and Constable's Foreign Miscellany . After Mary's death, Constable remarried in 1818, to Charlotte Neale, daughter of John Neale. Thomas Constable married Lucia Anne Cowan, daughter of Alexander Cowan , an Edinburgh paper-maker (who clearly would have had business links with

689-457: A thinly disguised satire of Edinburgh society in biblical language which Hogg started and Wilson and Lockhart elaborated, was so controversial that Wilson fled and Blackwood was forced to apologise. Soon Blackwood's Tory views and reviews – often scurrilous attacks on other writers – were notorious, and the magazine, or "Maga" as it came to be known, had become one of the best-selling journals of its day. But Hogg quickly found himself forced out of

742-527: A wide range of fiction and non-fiction books. It continues today as Constable & Robinson . Park Place was a small square north of George Square which was demolished later in the 19th century to build the new medical buildings for Edinburgh University . Constable was first married to Mary Willison (d.1814) daughter of David Willison, a rival Edinburgh printer. They lived in Craigcrook Castle in western Edinburgh. Among their children were

795-504: A year. At this time he became a founder member of a debating society called The Forum , eventually serving as its secretary. In 1812 he composed a long poetical work. The Queen's Wake (the setting of which was the return to Scotland of Mary, Queen of Scots in 1561 after her exile in France) was published early in 1813 and was a success. It was, in the guise of a competition, a collection of verse tales, of which Kilmeny became and remained

848-562: Is now held by the National Library of Scotland . Through over-speculation, complications arose, and in 1826 a financial crash occurred. Constable's London agents stopped payment, leading to his failure for over £250,000. James Ballantyne & Co. also went bankrupt, owing nearly £90,000. The collapse of both firms had a significant impact on Sir Walter Scott. Constable started business afresh, and began in 1827 Constable's Miscellany of Original and Selected Works consisting of

901-570: The Duke of Buccleuch granted him a small farm at Eltrive Moss, where he could live rent-free for his lifetime. He continued to write songs and poems, including "The Field of Waterloo" and "To the Ancient Banner of Buccleuch". His poem Mador of the Moor was published in 1816. Later in the year he published his collection of parodies The Poetic Mirror , achieving a marked success. Hogg first met

954-589: The Maga launched the Noctes Ambrosianae or "Nights at Ambrose's", imaginary conversations in a drinking-den between semi-fictional characters such as North, O'Doherty, The Opium Eater and the Ettrick Shepherd. The Shepherd was Hogg. The Noctes continued until 1834, and were written after 1825 mostly by Wilson, although other writers, including Hogg himself, had a hand in them. The Shepherd of

1007-695: The Noctes is a part-animal, part-rural simpleton, and part-savant. He became one of the best-known figures in topical literary affairs, famous throughout Britain and its colonies. Quite what the real James Hogg made of this is mostly unknown, although some of his letters to Blackwood and others express outrage and anguish. Hogg's Poetical Works in four volumes were published in 1822, as was his novel The Three Perils of Man . In 1823, in debt to Blackwood, Hogg began publishing his work The Shepherd's Calendar in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine . Hogg's daughter Jessie

1060-569: The Border" series. More recently Ross returned to the villain of that story, Merodach, making him the villain of a Doctor Who audiobook, Night's Black Agents ( Big Finish Productions 2010), in which this demonic figure assumes the pose of a Minister of the Kirk . Thomas Wilson 's Opera, The Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1972–75), commissioned by Scottish Opera , is based on the novel. A bill he issued to purchase £50 worth of lambs in 1824

1113-488: The Edinburgh publishing scene first published in the Newcastle Magazine in 1825, is based on Archibald Constable. Attribution: Published by Constable & Co. James Hogg James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He

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1166-542: The Last Minstrel , and in 1807 Marmion . He also published four of James Hogg 's books, The Mountain Bard (1807), The Shepherd's Guide (1807), The Forest Minstrel (1810) and Poetical Works (1822). In 1808 a split took place between Constable and Sir Walter Scott, who transferred his business to the publishing firm of John Ballantyne & Co., for which he supplied most of the capital. In 1813, however,

1219-492: The Scottish Border " by Walter Scott and continued a lifelong friendship with Scott from at least this point. Walter Scott was primarily an advocate, and the Edinburgh courts were only 100m from Constable's shop. From at least 1809 his head clerk Robert Cadell had a financial interest in the firm and in 1811 he replaced Hunter of Blackness as a partner, and from 1812 was sole partner with Constable. Constable made

1272-566: The United States, while James and William remained in Scotland for their entire lives. James attended a parish school for a few months before his education was stopped due to his father's bankruptcy as a stock-farmer and sheep-dealer. Robert Hogg was then given the position of shepherd at Ettrickhouse farm by one of his neighbours. James worked as a farm servant throughout his childhood, tending cows, doing general farm work, and acting as

1325-904: The United States, while a pirated version published in Glasgow led to a break with Lockhart. Hogg mended his relationship with Blackwood in May, but Blackwood died at the end of the year. Hogg published Tales of the Wars of Montrose in March 1835. James Hogg died on 21 November 1835 and was buried in Ettrick Churchyard, close to his childhood home in the Scottish Borders . In 2021, it was reported that his grave had been preemptively toppled by Scottish Borders Council out of safety concerns and that independent restoration efforts were planned by

1378-546: The best known. At the end of 1813 Hogg began writing a narrative poem Mador of the Moor set in the central Highlands; he completed it the spring of 1814 but it was not published for another two years. In 1814 Hogg completed a visionary poetic narrative The Pilgrims of the Sun in three weeks, and in the same year he met William Wordsworth and made a visit to the Lake District to see Wordsworth and other poets. In 1815

1431-598: The community. Wordsworth's "Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg", written on 30 November, nine days after Hogg's death, includes the lines: The mighty Minstrel breathes no longer, 'Mid mouldering ruins low he lies; And death upon the braes of Yarrow, Has closed the Shepherd-poet's eyes. This eulogy notwithstanding, Wordsworth's notes state "He was undoubtedly a man of original genius, but of coarse manners and low and offensive opinions." Among

1484-552: The editors, it published contributions by many of the leading scientists at the time, including Charles Babbage , John Herschel , Robert Stevenson , William Scoresby , Alexander Humboldt and Humphry Davy . It was one of the publishing options for the Royal Society of Edinburgh , and after 1839 it published proceedings of the Wernerian Natural History Society . This article about

1537-491: The end of the year he published the first volume of Jacobite Relics . He married Margaret Phillips on 28 April 1820. His second tales collection Winter Evening Tales was published a month later. At the end of the year his father died. The second volume of Jacobite Relics was published in February 1821, and his son James Robert Hogg was born in March 1821. Around this time, Hogg began having serious financial problems. It

1590-564: The house of William Creech and historically had been the home of Andro Hart . The printworks linked to this house seem to have been leased by Constable since around 1800. In 1808 he served as Moderator of the High Constables of Edinburgh. In 1812 Constable, who had admitted Robert Cathcart and Robert Cadell as partners on Hunter's retirement, purchased the copyright of the Encyclopædia Britannica , adding

1643-559: The inner circle. As other writers such as Walter Maginn and Thomas de Quincey joined, he became not merely excluded from the lion's share of publication in Maga, but a figure of fun in its pages. Wilson and Lockhart were dangerous friends. Hogg's Memoirs of the Author's Life were savagely attacked by an anonymous reviewer, causing Hogg to temporarily break with Blackwood's , and go to work for Constable's smaller Edinburgh Magazine . In 1822

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1696-533: The key themes of Scottish culture and identity: Calvinism . In a 2006 interview with Melvyn Bragg for ITV1 , Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh cited Hogg, especially The Confessions as a major influence on his writing. A James Hogg Society was founded in 1981 to encourage the study of his life and writings. Hogg's story "The Brownie of the Black Haggs" was dramatised for BBC Radio 4 in 2003 by Scottish playwright Marty Ross as part of his "Darker Side of

1749-713: The land steward to the Earl of Kellie . In 1788 Archibald was apprenticed to Peter Hill, an Edinburgh bookseller, based on the High Street south of the Mercat Cross . In 1795 Constable started in business for himself as a dealer in rare books, taking a unit immediately opposite Peter Hill, on the north side of the Mercat Cross. He was then living in a house in Calton village on the edge of Calton Hill . He bought

1802-479: The late 20th and early 21st centuries. Now his novel The Three Perils of Woman is also considered a classic and all his work, including his letters, is undergoing major publication in the Stirling/South Carolina editions. However, Justified Sinner remains his most important work and is now seen as one of the major Scottish novels of its time, and absolutely crucial in terms of exploring one of

1855-538: The lover of a young woman named Catherine Henderson, and in the same autumn he attempted unsuccessfully to establish himself as an independent farmer. Hogg's first collection, The Mountain Bard , was published in February 1807 by Constable . At the end of summer 1807 his daughter by Catherine Henderson was born, baptised on 13 December as Catherine Hogg. In 1837 she married David Lauder and they named their son James Hogg Lauder. Catherine Henderson herself went on to marry David Laidlaw in 1812. Hogg continued working as

1908-537: The poem Tam o' Shanter read to him. During this period Hogg wrote plays and pastorals, and continued producing songs. His work as a sheep drover stimulated an interest in the Scottish Highlands . In 1800 he left Blackhouse to help take care of his parents at Ettrickhouse. Early in 1801 he published a booklet Scottish Pastorals . His patriotic song "Donald Macdonald", printed as a broadside probably in 1803, achieved considerable popularity. In 1801 Hogg

1961-464: The publisher William Blackwood in the aftermath of his own publisher John Goldie's 1814 bankruptcy, and in 1817 he helped with the start of Blackwood's Edinburgh Monthly Magazine . He published his two volume collection Dramatic Tales in May. In 1818 his collection The Brownie of Bodsbeck ; and Other Tales was published by Blackwood. At this time Hogg was busy with his work Jacobite Relics . In 1819 he proposed marriage to Margaret Phillips. At

2014-522: The reading public at large Hogg was, during his lifetime, one of the most admired writers of the day, but this admiration was largely for his success in overcoming the disadvantages of his peasant birth and lack of education. He was considered a man of great natural genius whose uncouth style and subject-matter, so natural for the clownish figure depicted in the Noctes Ambrosianae , should not be held against him. A collected edition of his works

2067-745: The rights to publish the Scots Magazine in 1801, and John Leyden , the orientalist, became its editor. In 1800 Constable began the Farmer's Magazine , and in November 1802 he issued the first number of the Edinburgh Review , under the nominal editorship of Sydney Smith ; Lord Jeffrey, was, however, the guiding spirit of the review, having as his associates Lord Brougham , Sir Walter Scott , Henry Hallam , John Playfair and afterwards Lord Macaulay . In 1802 he published " Minstrelsy of

2120-717: The supplement (6 vols, 1816-1824) to the 4th, 5th and 6th editions. In 1814 he bought the copyright of Waverley . This was issued anonymously; but in a short time 12,000 copies were disposed of, Scott's other novels following in quick succession. The firm also published the Annual Register . Constable played a key role in the 1825 purchase of the Astorga Collection by the library of the Faculty of Advocates . The collection, comprising 3,716 pre-1800 volumes which ones belonged to Spain's 14th Marquis of Astorga ,

2173-702: The year he met with Walter Scott for the last time. In early 1831 Hogg's Songs, by The Ettrick Shepherd was published, but the publishing of the companion volume A Queer Book was held up by Blackwood. Hogg's last child, his daughter Mary, was born in August. At the end of the year he quarrelled with Blackwood, and decided to publish his works in London . In 1832 his Altrive Tales was published in London, while Blackwood finally published A Queer Book in April or May. Hogg

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2226-502: Was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott , of whom he later wrote an unauthorised biography . 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

2279-485: Was a tenant farmer while his mother, Margaret Hogg (née Laidlaw) (1730–1813), was noted for collecting native Scottish ballads . Margaret Laidlaw's father, known as Will o' Phawhope, was said to have been the last man in the Border country to speak with the fairies . James was the second eldest of four brothers, his siblings being William, David, and Robert (from eldest to youngest). Robert and David later emigrated to

2332-453: Was born at the end of the year. Hogg's collection Select and Rare Scotish Melodies was published in 1829, and he continued to write songs and contribute to annuals throughout 1828–29, while The Shepherd's Calendar was published in book form in Spring, 1829. In 1830 he started publishing in the new Fraser's Magazine , which helped to alleviate a further financial crisis, and at the end of

2385-513: Was born in April, and later in the year he published his novel The Three Perils of Woman . In June 1824 he published his best known work, the novel The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner . His epic poem Queen Hynde was published at the end of the year. In 1825 he found a new and lucrative market for his works as he began publishing in a literary annual called the Literary Souvenir . In 1825 Hogg's daughter Maggie

2438-521: Was born, and he began writing a new prose work, later titled Tales of the Wars of Montrose . In 1826 Hogg was in serious trouble with his debts, while the firm of Constable collapsed, involving Walter Scott and Hogg's friend John Aiken. In 1827 his debts began to lighten as his Shepherd's Calendar pieces were being published, and he was getting more and more applications to contribute to annuals. The death of his father-in-law, whose family Hogg had been supporting, gave him relief. His third daughter Harriet

2491-498: Was loaned Justified Sinner by Raymond Mortimer . Gide was amazed, writing that "It is long since I can remember being so taken hold of, so voluptuously tormented by any book." Its republication in 1947, with an enthusiastic introduction by Gide, helped bring about the modern critical and academic appreciation of this novel. Growing interest in The Confessions led to the rediscovery and reconsideration of his other work in

2544-457: Was notable mainly as an example of triumph over adverse circumstances. Apart from Justified Sinner , which even his detractors acknowledged as unusually powerful (and often attributed to someone else, usually Lockhart), his novels were regarded as turgid, his verse as light, his short tales and articles as ephemera. This situation only began to change in 1924, when the French writer André Gide

2597-404: Was offered a large sum to edit a collection of the works of Robert Burns, but the bankruptcy of his London publisher stopped the publication of his Altrive Tales after the first of the twelve projected volumes. In 1833 Hogg had an accident while curling , falling through the ice, causing a serious illness. In 1834 his biographical work Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott was published in

2650-429: Was published in the 1830s, after Hogg's death, pruned of some passages which offended the increasing delicacy of the age, and another Works of the Ettrick Shepherd was prepared in the 1860s which took the process even further; some works, for example The Three Perils of Woman , were excluded altogether. Victorian readers of these emasculated texts naturally came to the conclusion that Hogg had been overrated, and that he

2703-535: Was recruited to collect ballads for Walter Scott 's collection Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border . He met Scott himself the following year and began working for the Edinburgh Magazine . In the summer of 1802 he embarked on the first of three tours of the Highlands with a view to securing a farm of his own. He eventually found a farm on Harris but due to trouble with his finances and a legal issue he

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2756-694: Was through the Edinburgh Monthly Magazine , soon renamed Blackwood's Magazine , that Hogg found fame, although it was not the sort that he wanted. Launched as a counter-blast to the Whig Edinburgh Review , Blackwood wanted punchy content in his new publication. He found his ideal contributors in John Wilson (who wrote as Christopher North) and John Gibson Lockhart (later Walter Scott's son-in-law and biographer). Their first published article, "The Chaldee Manuscript",

2809-600: Was unable to secure a lease by 1804. He may not have been really committed to the project in any case. His experiences on his Highland tours were described in letters to Scott which were published in the Scots Magazine . On his way back to Ettrickhouse in 1803 he dined with the novelist John Galt in Greenock. In 1805–06 he worked as a shepherd in Dumfriesshire , meeting the poet Allan Cunningham and becoming friends with him and his family. In October 1806 he became

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