Northern Laughter
Karl Miller: Macrone on Scott, 10 October 2013
The Life of Sir Walter Scott
by John Macrone, edited by Daniel Grader.
Edinburgh, 156 pp., £65, February 2013,978 0 7486 6991 2 Show More
by John Macrone, edited by Daniel Grader.
Edinburgh, 156 pp., £65, February 2013,
“... in Canada. So now we know what we have been missing, or not missing. The editor of this book, Daniel Grader, sees Macrone as hailing from Scotland, on the say-so of the poet Thomas Moore; others favour the Isle of Man. Hogg met him when he was working as a shopman in Mayfair, and was then published by Macrone when Macrone went into partnership with ... ”
