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Title: Noctes Ambrosianae
Author: John Wilson (Christopher North)
Year of Publication: 1822 (19th century)
Type: Collection
Genre: Humour, Politics, Social Observation,
Plot Summary: Wilson wrote 41 of these humorous articles for Blackwood’s Magazine under the pseudonym ‘Christopher North’. They purport to describe rumbustious and well-lubricated conversations between North and his friends on topics as varied as politics, poetry and poultry farming. Particularly popular was North’s ‘creation’ of an opinionated Border rustic, the ‘Ettrick Shepherd’, a figure whose treatment was shaped by the author’s occasionally patronising affection for the real-life James Hogg. The Ambrosian nights are set in the fictional Ambrose’s Tavern in Edinburgh. However, many of the actual conversations which inspired Wilson were held in Tibbie Shiel’s Inn by St Mary’s Loch and the Crook Inn by Talla.
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Home | Title detail page
Title: Noctes Ambrosianae
Author: John Wilson (Christopher North)
Year of Publication: 1822 (19th century)
Type: Collection
Genre: Humour, Politics, Social Observation,
Plot Summary: Wilson wrote 41 of these humorous articles for Blackwood’s Magazine under the pseudonym ‘Christopher North’. They purport to describe rumbustious and well-lubricated conversations between North and his friends on topics as varied as politics, poetry and poultry farming. Particularly popular was North’s ‘creation’ of an opinionated Border rustic, the ‘Ettrick Shepherd’, a figure whose treatment was shaped by the author’s occasionally patronising affection for the real-life James Hogg. The Ambrosian nights are set in the fictional Ambrose’s Tavern in Edinburgh. However, many of the actual conversations which inspired Wilson were held in Tibbie Shiel’s Inn by St Mary’s Loch and the Crook Inn by Talla.
SITEMAP | LINKS | TERMS & CONDITIONS | © Edinburgh Film Focus 2009