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Laing : [work on Norway]

Harriet Martineau on inspirations for her story 'Feats on the Fjord': 'Mr Laing's book on Norway fell in my way, and set my imagination floating on the fjords [...] I procured Inglis's Travels and every thing that I could get hold of about the state of Norway while connected with Denmark; and hence arose "Feats on the Fjord."'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Harriet Martineau      Print: Book

Malcolm Laing : The History of Scotland, from the Union of the Crowns on the accession of James VI to the throne of England to the Union of the Kingdoms in the reign of Queen Anne

[Marginalia]

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Taylor Coleridge      Print: Book

David Laing : [review of new edition of 'the Mountain Bard' - Edinburgh Monthly Review]

'I hope you do not estimate my mind by Davie Laing's canting and insolent review or by your friend Goldie's lies [Hogg then complains at Boyd's unwillingness to publish "The Three Perils of Man"] I neither could have expected such an insolent nor such an ignorant review from D. Laing.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

David Laing : [review in 'Edinburgh Monthly Review' of Hogg's 'The Mountain Bard'

'I cannot think one thing and say another to a friend or indeed to any man and it was owing to a review written by you in the Edin. Quarterly of The Mountain Bard that hindered me to call as I was wont. I thought that article illiberal from a friend and wrong view taken of the Memoir but I am so used to these rubs that I have learned the virtue of forgiveness a good deal; and hereby promise and swear that now when I have told you what I felt that article shall never be mentioned nor thought of more between the writer and me, [italics] whoever he may be [end italics].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: James Hogg      Print: Serial / periodical

Mr Laing : Pastoral Visits

'I never saw the book of Mr Laings ('Pastoral Visits') which you speak of; and I should much like to see it, if you have a copy to spare.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Lady Kay Shuttleworth      Print: Book

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