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Edinburgh enjoys a long and impressive literary heritage and can claim connections with some of the world's most famous writers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson and Sir Walter Scott were all natives of the city, while Robert Burns, Charles Dickens, J.M. Barrie and Samuel Johnson were just a few of those who forged links with what William Cobbett described as 'the finest city in the kingdom'. Edinburgh has provided the setting for countless novels over the years, not least in more recent times with Muriel Spark's The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961) and Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting (1993). Nowadays, the city hosts its annual International Book Festival, when, for a couple of weeks every August, authors and visitors from far and wide flock to Charlotte Square Gardens for 'the biggest celebration of the written word in the world'. Published to coincide with the 21st Edinburgh International Book Festival, this work includes not only native Edinburgh authors but others on whom the city had a profound influence.
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SOURCE NOTES
(Place of publication is London unless stated otherwise)
One: Boswell and Johnson
1.Daniel Defoe (ed. Pat Rogers), A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain (Webb & Bower/Michael Joseph, 1989), p. 205.
2.Edward Topham, Letters from Edinburgh (1774), (Lang Syne, Glasgow, 1989 edn), p. 7.
3.Oliphant Smeaton, William Dunbar (Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1898), pp. 65 and 71.
4.Quoted in James Boswell (ed. Christopher Hibbert), The Life of Samuel Johnson (Penguin, 1979 edn), p. 96.
5.James Boswell (ed. Hugh M. Milne), Edinburgh Journals 1767–1786 (Mercat Press edn, Edinburgh, 2001), p. 173.
6.Quoted in Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, p. 173.
7.James Boswell (ed. R.W. Chapman), The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Oxford University Press, 1924 edn, reprinted 1979), p. 173.
8.Topham, Letters, p. 9.
9.Quoted in Christopher Hibbert, The Personal History of Samuel Johnson (Longman, 1971), pp. 131–2.
10.Boswell, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, p. 174.
11.Ibid., p. 427.
12.Samuel Johnson (ed. R.W. Chapman), A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (Oxford University Press, 1924 edn, reprinted 1979), p. 3.
13.Quoted in Iain Finlayson, The Moth and the Candle: A Life of James Boswell (Constable, 1984), p. 241.
14.Eric Linklater, Edinburgh (Newnes, 1960), p. 119.
Two: Robert Burns
1.Quoted in Ian McIntyre, Dirt & Deity: A Life of Robert Burns (HarperCollins, 1995), p. 81.
2.Quoted in David Carroll, Burns Country (Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1999), p. 20.
3.Quoted in Ibid., p. 20.
4.Quoted in Robert Chambers (ed.), The Life and Works of Robert Burns (4 vols), Vol. 2 (W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1856 edn), p. 4.
5.Ibid., p. 6.
6.Quoted in Ibid., p. 6.
7.Quoted in Ibid., p. 6.
8.Henry Cockburn, Memorials of His Time (A & C Black, Edinburgh, 1856), p. 169.
9.Robert Chambers, Traditions of Edinburgh (1824), (W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1967 edn), p. 104.
10.Smeaton, Allan Ramsay (Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1896), p. 57.
11.Chambers, Traditions, p. 15.
12.Ibid., p. 339.
13.Smeaton, Allan Ramsay, p. 116.
14.Chambers, Traditions, p. 14.
15.Quoted in Chambers, The Life and Works of Robert Burns, p. 51.
16.Quoted in McIntyre, Dirt & Deity, p. 120.
17.Quoted in Chambers, p. 55.
18.Ibid., p. 32.
19.Quoted in J.G. Lockhart, The Life of Sir Walter Scott, Vol. 1 (A & C Black, Edinburgh, 1888 edn), pp. 41–2.
20.Quoted in A.B. Grosart, Robert Fergusson (Oliphant Anderson and Ferrier, Edinburgh, 1898), pp. 10–11.
21.Grosart, p. 159.
22.Quoted in Ibid., p. 15.
23.Quoted in Ibid., p. 13.
24.Q...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- One Boswell and Johnson: A Man led by a Bear
- Two Robert Burns: A Meteor Appearance
- Three Sir Walter Scott and His Own Romantic Town
- Four Thomas De Quincey: The Mouse in a Blizzard
- Five Thomas Carlyle: The Sage of Chelsea
- Six Charles Dickens: Coming Home
- Seven Robert Louis Stevenson: A Mind on Fire
- Eight W.E. Henley: A Trojan of Letters
- Nine Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: Doctor of Detection
- Ten J.M. Barrie: Apart from the Crowd
- Eleven Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon: Passing Bells
- Twelve An Edinburgh Review
- Postscript Edinburgh en Fête
- Source Notes
- Bibliography