Crockett, Samuel Rutherford
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▪ Scottish writer
original name Samuel Crockett
born Sept. 24, 1859, Little Duchrae, near New Galloway, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scot.
died April 16, 1914, Tarascon, near Avignon, Fr.
Scottish novelist and a leader of the Kailyard (
Kailyard school) (
kitchen garden) school (
q.v.) of writers who depicted Scottish rural life in a sentimental fashion.
After graduating from Edinburgh University in 1879 and studying for the ministry at New Colly, Edinburgh, in 1886 he became minister of Penicuik, Midlothian. With the success of the novels The Stickit Minister (1893) and The Lilac Sunbonnet (1894), he abandoned the ministry for writing, following the vogue for novels in Scots dialect set by James M. Barrie. Crockett published more than 40 books, mainly novels.
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CROCKETT, SAMUEL RUTHERFORD — novelist, born near New Galloway, Kirkcudbright; bred for the Church, and for some time Free Church minister at Penicuik, Midlothian, a charge he resigned in 1895, having previously published a volume of sketches entitled The Stickit Minister … The Nuttall Encyclopaedia
Crockett, Samuel Rutherford — (b. 1860) Novelist and poet. The Stickit Minister (1893), The Raiders (1894), Lilac Sunbonnet (1894), Bog, Myrtle, and Peat (1895), Men of the Moss Hags (1895), Grey Man (1896), Standard Bearer (1898), Joan of the Sword Hand (1900), Love… … Short biographical dictionary of English literature
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Samuel Rutherford Crockett — Samuel Rutherford Crockett, né le 24 septembre 1859 et mort le 16 avril 1914, est un écrivain écossais. Œuvres principales The Raiders, The Lilac Sun bonnet and Mad Sir Uchtred (1894) The Men of the Moss Hags (1895) Sweetheart … Wikipédia en Français
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Scotland — /skot leuhnd/, n. a division of the United Kingdom in the N part of Great Britain. 5,205,000; 30,412 sq. mi. (78,772 sq. km). Cap.: Edinburgh. * * * I Northernmost country of the United Kingdom. Area: 30,421 sq mi (78,789 sq km). Population… … Universalium
