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Ewan Fernie

@efernie

Prof @ShakesInstitute - formerly Director @E2EShakespeare & Culture Forward - increasingly interested in 19thC & Scottish lit - Agent @wolfiegoethe

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At the Devil's Beef Tub, where the 'reiving' bandits of the Borders hid stolen cattle, & covenantor John Hunter was shot by dragoons in August 1685. In his 200-year-old novel, *Redgauntlet*, Walter Scott calls it 'a damned deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole'.

At the Devil's Beef Tub, where the 'reiving' bandits of the Borders hid stolen cattle, & covenantor John Hunter was shot by dragoons in August 1685. In his 200-year-old novel, *Redgauntlet*, Walter Scott calls it 'a damned deep, black, blackguard-looking abyss of a hole'.