The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner: Written by Himself: With a detail of curious traditionary facts and other evidence by the editor is a novel by the Scottish author James Hogg, published anonymously in 1824.
First edition title page
Cairn on the reputed site of an 18th-century suicide's grave, Scotland.
The novel in Scotland includes all long prose fiction published in Scotland and by Scottish authors since the development of the literary format in the eighteenth century. The novel was soon a major element of Scottish literary and critical life. Tobias Smollett's picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle mean that he is often seen as Scotland's first novelist. Other Scots who contributed to the development of the novel in the eighteenth century include Henry Mackenzie and John Moore.
Walter Scott, the outstanding novelist of the early nineteenth century
Tobias Smollett, often considered Scotland's first novelist
Illustration to 1893 edition of Waverley, by Walter Scott
Robert Louis Stevenson one of the Scottish novelists to gain an international reputation in the late nineteenth century
