About the Author

Peter Garside is Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has served on the Boards of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels and Stirling / South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg and has published a variety of volumes for these scholarly editions. More recently he has co-edited with Gillian Hughes the volume of Scott's Shorter Poems (2020) for the ongoing Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry.Gillian Hughes, Independent Scholar, has been a General Editor of the Stirling/South Carolina Research Edition of the Collected Works of James Hogg, and is currently an advisory editor for the Edinburgh Edition of Walter Scott's Poetry and for the New Edinburgh Edition of the Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. She has published critical editions of works by each of these writers, and also a biography of James Hogg.

Reviews

"Part fictional travelogue, part manifesto for Romantic cultural nationalism, Peter's Letters to his Kinsfolk set the agenda for Scottish cultural criticism well into the twentieth century. This superb critical edition recaptures the gossipy zest as well as polemical seriousness of Lockhart's anatomy of personalities and institutions in the 'Age of Scott'." -Ian Duncan, University of California, Berkeley