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The Spy

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The Spy was a periodical directed at the Edinburgh market, edited by James Hogg, with himself as principal contributor, which appeared from 1 September 1810 to 24 August 1811. It combined features of two types of periodical established in the 18th century, the essay periodical and the miscellany. As an outsider, Hogg used his periodical to give a critical view of the dominant upper-class culture of Edinburgh, with Walter Scott and Francis Jeffrey as its leading lights, and to launch his career as a writer of fiction as well as poetry. Background Hogg established The Spy during the year when he exchanged farming life in the south of Scotland for a literary career in Edinburgh. It combined features of essay periodicals such as The Spectator and The Rambler and miscellanies such as The Scots Magazine. Each issue had normally eight pages, usually containing an essay and one or more original poems. Hogg wrote over half the material himself, with James Gray, Classics master at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and his wife Mary Gray as his principal contributors. In six numbers (19, 35, 36, 39, 48, and 52) Hogg makes use, without acknowledgment, of passages by Samuel Johnson from The Rambler and The Idler. Editions The first 13 numbers were printed, rather crudely, by James Robertson, who usually produced popular booklets and chapbooks. The remainder were more expertly printed by Andrew and James Aikman. It is not known how many copies were produced: Hogg indicated there were more than 100 subscribers by the second number; 73 of them withdrew after the fourth number in which the narrator is seduced by his housekeeper, but enough support survived to make it possible to complete 52 issues. As soon as The Spy had finished the year-long run it was made available in volume form, published in Edinburgh by Archibald Constable & Co. with the title The Spy. A Periodical Paper of Literary Amusement and Instruction. Published Weekly, in 1810 and 1811. Several of Hogg's own contributions to The Spy were included, with smaller or greater revisions, in some of his later publications: most notably, for prose items, Winter Evening Tales (1820) and, for poems, Poetical Works (1822). Two of the longer poems, 'King Edward's Dream' (No. 20) and 'Macgregor, a Highland Tale' (No. 40) were republished as part of The Queen's Wake (1813).

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Not who you're looking for? Others named The Spy: book by Clive Cussler · 1914 film directed by Otis Turner · 1931 film by Berthold Viertel, Fred Zinnemann · 1917 film by Richard Stanton

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The Spy was a periodical directed at the Edinburgh market, edited by James Hogg, with himself as principal contributor, which appeared from 1 September 1810 to 24 August 1811. It combined features of two types of periodical established in the 18th century, the essay periodical and the miscellany. As an outsider, Hogg used his periodical to give a critical view of the dominant upper-class culture of Edinburgh, with Walter Scott and Francis Jeffrey as its leading lights, and to launch his career as a writer of fiction as well as poetry. Background Hogg established The Spy during the year when he exchanged farming life in the south of Scotland for a literary career in Edinburgh. It combined features of essay periodicals such as The Spectator and The Rambler and miscellanies such as The Scots Magazine. Each issue had normally eight pages, usually containing an essay and one or more original poems. Hogg wrote over half the material himself, with James Gray, Classics master at the Royal High School, Edinburgh and his wife Mary Gray as his principal contributors. In six numbers (19, 35, 36, 39, 48, and 52) Hogg makes use, without acknowledgment, of passages by Samuel Johnson from The Rambler and The Idler. Editions The first 13 numbers were printed, rather crudely, by James Robertson, who usually produced popular booklets and chapbooks. The remainder were more expertly printed by Andrew and James Aikman. It is not known how many copies were produced: Hogg indicated there were more than 100 subscribers by the second number; 73 of them withdrew after the fourth number in which the narrator is seduced by his housekeeper, but enough support survived to make it possible to complete 52 issues. As soon as The Spy had finished the year-long run it was made available in volume form, published in Edinburgh by Archibald Constable & Co. with the title The Spy. A Periodical Paper of Literary Amusement and Instruction. Published Weekly, in 1810 and 1811. Several of Hogg's own contributions to The Spy were included, with smaller or greater revisions, in some of his later publications: most notably, for prose items, Winter Evening Tales (1820) and, for poems, Poetical Works (1822). Two of the longer poems, 'King Edward's Dream' (No. 20) and 'Macgregor, a Highland Tale' (No. 40) were republished as part of The Queen's Wake (1813).

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