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John Wilson died on April Fool’s Day, 1854. In the decade that followed three substantial monuments were erected in his honour. First, from 1855 to 1858, his son-in-law and nephew, James Ferrier, who held at St Andrews the same Chair, of Moral Philosophy and Political Economy, that John Wilson had held at Edinburgh for more than three decades, published his twelve- volume edition of Wilson’s works, beginning with the Noctes Ambrosianae, the papers that had first appeared in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine for which Wilson was most celebrated, collected in four volumes. Then in 1862 Wilson’s second daughter, Mary Wilson Gordon, produced a two-volume biography of her father. Finally, on March 25, 1865, the bronze statue of Wilson in Prince’s Street Gardens, Edinburgh, was inaugurated. Like the collected Works and the biography, the statue, ten feet high, and mounted on a substantial plinth, offers a representation of Wilson on the heroic scale, but this is not all that the three monuments have in common.:
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Cronin, R. (2013). John Wilson and Regency Authorship. In: Morrison, R., Roberts, D.S. (eds) Romanticism and Blackwood’s Magazine. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137303851_16
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