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Hogg first met the publisher William Blackwood in the aftermath of his own publisher John Goldie's 1814 bankruptcy, and in 1817 he helped with the start of Blackwood's Edinburgh Monthly Magazine.

He published his two volume collection Dramatic Tales in May.

In 1818 his collection The Brownie of Bodsbeck and Other Tales was published by Blackwood.

At this time Hogg was busy with his work Jacobite Reliques.

In 1819 he proposed marriage to Margaret Phillips.

At the end of the year he published the first volume of Jacobite Relics.

He married Margaret Phillips on 28 April 1820.

His second tales collection Winter Evening Tales was published a month later.

At the end of the year his father died.

The second volume of Jacobite Relics was published in February, 1821, and his son James Robert Hogg was born in March, 1821.

Around this time, Hogg began having serious financial problems.