biography
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Hogg, James
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known as the Ettrick Shepherd
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| lived:
| (1770–1835)
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| biography:
| Writer, born near Ettrick, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. He tended sheep in his youth, and after only a spasmodic education he became a writer of ballads, which achieved some success thanks to the patronage of Walter Scott. He eventually settled in Edinburgh, and wrote several works in verse and prose, notably The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824). |
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