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
First edition title page
Early photograph of the Grassmarket in Edinburgh, one of the locations in Confessions, taken around 28 years after publication of the novel.
Cairn on the reputed site of an 18th-century suicide's grave, Scotland.
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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
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
…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. The plot concerns Robert Wringhim, a staunch Calvinist who, under the influence of the mysterious Gil-Martin, believes…
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