‘A character so various, and yet so indisputably its own’: A Passage to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine

‘To Die as a Soldier’: The Vital Romance of the Military Novel

“…(Lockhart was one of the principal writers for the magazine, along with James Hogg, Thomas De Quincey, William Maginn and Felicia Hemans. 12 ) At Chiefswood, Hamilton was a close neighbour of Sir Walter Scott and received regular visits from Scott, William Blackwood (Blackwood's publisher) and Felicia Hemans, with whom he and his wife were on good terms and corresponded frequently. Hamilton's brother William was also a major figure in British literary circles, playing an essential role in the continuation of Scottish Enlightenment thought into a second generation by synthesising Kant's philosophy with that of Thomas Reid.…”