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First published in 1893 this collection of 24 short stories/sketches by S.R.Crockett had mostly been published in magazine form during the previous decade. The stories, many of them set in his native Galloway, were well received by public and critics alike in his own day. He dedicated the first edition thus: Dedication to Robert Louis Stevenson of Scotland and Samoa I dedicate these stories of that Grey Galloway land where about the graves of the martyrs the whaups are crying – his heart remembers how. This inspired Stevenson to write a poem in response and to comment favourably on the collection ‘The whole book breathes admirably of the soil. ‘The Stickit Minister’ and ‘Heather Lintie’ are two that come near to me particularly. They are drowned in Scotland. They have refreshed me like a visit home.’ From the late 1880’s Crockett wrote regularly for serial magazines. ‘The Stickit Minister and other Common men’ to give it its full title, was compiled out of the many stories he wrote during this time for the Glasgow Penny Weekly, The Christian Leader. Crockett himself explained how it came about: I was writing editorials on theological subjects for religious periodicals, and one d

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Author

Crockett, S. R. 1860-1914

Publisher

W. Briggs; T.F. Unwin, 1894.

Published

1894

Language

EN

ISBN

9780665269981

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities