John Mackay Wilson
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John Mackay Wilson
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John Mackay Wilson was a Scottish writer who wrote the eponymous "Wilson's Tales of The Borders" He was born in Tweedmouth, on the border between Scotland and England. He gave many talks to Temperance societies. Whilst editor of the Berwick Advertiser, Wilson began publishing local stories. Their popularity led to him reprinting and extending them into a weekly broadsheet, priced at 1 1/2d Although he died within a year, with his obituary published in issue 49, the Tales ran to 312 editions, in
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Scottish writer (1804–1835)
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