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Covenanting sympathiser in a recently engaged servant, old Nanny
Elshinder. Taken into custody by Clavers, Walter witnesses the commander's harsh behaviour before himself escaping sentence of death by defying witnesses for the prosecution at his trial. On his return to Chapelhope he is introduced by his daughter to the Covenanters, their leader being John Brown of Caldwell who is revealed to be Nanny's long-lost husband.
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Ch. 11: Katharine finds
Drumelzier helpful, but on her return she discovers that Chapelhope has been deserted as haunted. Walter and his fellow-prisoners are transferred from the custody of a fair-minded Highlander Sergeant Daniel Roy Macpherson to less sympathetic officers to be taken to Edinburgh.
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Ch. 10: The
Brownie saves Katharine from an assault by the curate. Preparing to leave Chapelhope to seek help for her father from the laird of Drumelzier she entrusts the house to Nanny, whose covenanting credentials are now made clear, with instructions to admit one or two Covenanters every night.
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Ch. 5: Katharine's
Brownie scares most of the servants away from Chapelhope. Fearing her own expulsion she consults old Nanny Elshinder, a recently engaged servant, but finds her uncommunicative: Nanny waits till she thinks Katharine is out of hearing before singing an explicitly covenanting song.
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Compassion leads Walter
Laidlaw, a man of no strong religious views, to assist a group of Covenanters in hiding near his farm of Chapelhope. Unknown to him, his daughter Katharine is also helping them, drawing on local superstition to cast their leader in the role of Brownie. She discovers a fellow
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Nos 24‒26 (February 1811); and 'The Hunt of Eildon', published for the first time. In 'The Wool-gatherer' a young modern laird befriends and eventually marries the secret wife of his late brother and mother of that brother's son. 'The Hunt of Eildon', a virtuoso display of medieval enchantment and
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Ch. 12: The vacation of
Chapelhope is explained: Nanny had seen the curate confronted by the Brownie and attendant spirits, resulting in his disappearance. Katharine and Nanny engage in Covenanting discourse. At the neighbouring Riskinhope farm, where she has taken refuge, Nanny joins the
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was making its way through the press in
January 1818, and it is clear from Hogg's letters to Blackwood that the material he is providing in batches consists of a transcription of an earlier manuscript: the amount of revision is unspecified. The date of composition of
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was edited by
Douglas S. Mack in 1976 (Edinburgh and London), taking the first edition as copy-text but restoring manuscript readings and incorporating a small number of revisions from the 1837 edition so as to respect what are judged to have been Hogg's intentions.
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Ch. 13: Davie Tait discovers that the
Brownie has been carrying out part of the reaping, and a week later it is discovered that the job has been completed, and then that the dirty and laborious job of smearing the sheep has also been accomplished.
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Ch. 14: At the end of his trial in
Edinburgh, Walter is released on bail, after he defies his accusers in the king's name, following advice given by Sergeant Macpherson who now happily maintains that the Laidlaws and Macphersons are related.
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Ch. 2: (Chs 2‒4 fill in the background to Ch. 1) The narrator indicates that Maron, unlike Walter, is much influenced by a local curate. Clavers loses five of his men sent to hunt down the Covenanters who had taken refuge in the area.
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Ch. 15: On Halloween Walter returns home, in spite of supernatural warnings, and looking in through a window sees Katharine and the Brownie with a fresh corpse. He takes refuge at Riskinhope with Davie Tait.
228:, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2004), 289: Hogg to Blackwood, 4 January 1817. Compare Hogg's further letter to Blackwood of 13 January 1818 on the same subject and specifically mentioning
104:, London. The two other tales were short stories, or novellas: 'The Wood-gatherer', revised from its original publication as 'The Country Laird. A Tale by John Miller' in Hogg's periodical
121:, 6 vols (Glasgow, 1837). 'The Wool-gatherer' also appeared in the first volume, and 'The Hunt of Eildon' was included in the third. It is likely that some of the substantive changes for
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Ch. 4: Continuing Walter's story, the narrator tells how he persuaded the Covenanters to stay in the area when they declined to put him in danger by continuing to accept his bounty.
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Ch. 6: Clavers and his men arrive and examine in turn Nanny, Katharine (defended physically by her father), and finally Maron who reveals the Covenanters' hiding-place.
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Ch. 9: Walter's family is released but he is forced to accompany Clavers and witnesses a number of severe actions, including the execution of a number of Covenanters.
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Ch. 1: Walter Laidlaw of Chapelhope is told by his wife Maron that their daughter Katharine has been ordering her Brownie to kill five of Clavers' Highland troopers.
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Ch. 16: Katharine leads her father to a concealed cave where the Brownie and his companions are identified as John Brown of Caldwell and other Covenanters.
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Ch. 3: The reader is told, in Walter's own words, how he took compassion on a group of the Covenanters and provided them regularly with food.
76:, which appeared in December 1816 with a much less sympathetic view of the Covenanters and a distinctly less harsh depiction of Claverhouse.
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inhabitants in prayer (led with peculiar eloquence by the shepherd Davie Tait) and sacred song, after the inadvertent raising of a spirit.
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shape-changing, centres on the beneficent actions of two innocent young women who have been changed into hounds with supernatural powers.
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The Brownie of Bodsbeck; and Other Tales. By James Hogg, Author of "The Queen's Wake," &c. &c.
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281:, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2008), 193: Hogg to Blackie & Son, 11 November 1833); Mack,
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216:, ed. Douglas S. Mack (Edinburgh and London, 1976), xv‒xvi.
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The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
261:, ed. Gillian Hughes (Edinburgh, 2003), 45‒46. Compare
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The Collected Letters of James Hogg: Volume 1 1800‒1819
117:was included in the first volume of the posthumous
57:at the beginning of 1817 were ready to be printed.
248:, 325 (13 January 1818) and 329 (31 January 1818).
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45:It is not known for certain when Hogg composed
37:. It draws extensively on local superstitions.
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257:James Hogg, 'Memoir of the Author's Life' in
269:, ed. Jill Rubenstein (Edinburgh, 1999), 51.
350:(1820 - novellas, short stories, and poems)
119:Tales and Sketches, by The Ettrick Shepherd
51:The Rural and Traditional Tales of Scotland
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33:and a harsh view of the Royalists led by
96:was published in two volumes in 1818 by
433:(1834 - moral and religious discourses)
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422:Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott
263:Familiar Anecdotes of Sir Walter Scott
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363:The Three Perils of Woman
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481:The Pilgrims of the Sun
430:A Series of Lay Sermons
414:The Shepherd's Calendar
355:The Three Perils of Man
339:The Brownie of Bodsbeck
214:The Brownie of Bodsbeck
129:The Brownie of Bodsbeck
115:The Brownie of Bodsbeck
47:The Brownie of Bodsbeck
18:The Brownie of Bodsbeck
390:(1835 - short stories)
382:(1832 - short stories)
35:Clavers (Claverhouse)
347:Winter Evening Tales
570:Works by James Hogg
555:1818 British novels
465:The Forest Minstrel
53:that Hogg informed
449:Scottish Pastorals
267:Anedcotes of Scott
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398:Non-fiction
230:The Brownie
123:The Brownie
102:John Murray
64:The Brownie
59:The Brownie
31:Covenanters
549:Categories
324:James Hogg
200:References
41:Background
23:James Hogg
322:Works by
236:, 325‒26.
283:op. cit.
89:Editions
406:The Spy
331:Fiction
107:The Spy
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441:Poetry
516:Songs
246:Ibid.
234:ibid.
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