Allan Cunningham (author)
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Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author.
Allan Cunningham, Henry Room, c.1840
Bust of Allan Cunningham, by Henry Weekes, 1842
James Hogg
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James Hogg 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 was a
Allan Cunningham (author)
…Galloway, and first worked as a stonemason's apprentice. His father was a neighbour of Robert Burns at Ellisland, and Allan with his brother James visited James Hogg, the "Ettrick shepherd", who became a friend to both. Cunningham's other brothers were the naval surgeon Peter Miller Cunningham (1789–1864) and the…
Portrait by John Watson Gordon, 1830
The farmhouse at Blackhouse, where Hogg worked as a young man
An oil painting of Hogg
An etching of Hogg