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Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 – 16 April 1914), who published under the name "S. R. Crockett", was a Scottish novelist. ==Life== He was born at Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 24 September 1859,the illegitimate son of dairymaid Annie Crocket. He was raised on his grandfather's Galloway farm, won a bursary to Edinburgh University in 1876,〔D. Daiches ed., "The Penguin Companion to Literature: 1" (1971) p. 127〕 and graduated from there during 1879. After some years of travel, he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik. During that year he produced his first publication, ''Dulce Cor'' (Latin: ''Sweet Heart''), a collection of verse under the pseudonym Ford Brereton. He eventually abandoned the Free Church ministry for full-time novel-writing in 1895. The success of J. M. Barrie and the Kailyard school of sentimental, homey writing had already created a demand for stories in Lowland Scots,〔I. Ousby ed., ''The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English'' (1995) p. 503〕 when Crockett published his successful story of ''The Stickit Minister'' during 1893. It was followed by a rapidly produced series of popular novels frequently featuring the history of Scotland or his native Galloway. Crockett made considerable sums of money from his writing and was a friend and correspondent of R. L. Stevenson, but his later work has been criticised as being over-prolific and feebly sentimental.〔D. Daiches ed., ''The Penguin Companion to Literature: 1'' (1971) p. 127〕 Crockett's connection with Kailyard is now beginning to be acknowledged as nebulous at best, as evidenced by a re-appraisal of the whole Kailyard concept by writers such as Andrew Nash.〔''Kailyard and Scottish Literature'',2007〕 During 1900, Crockett wrote a booklet published by the London camera manufacturer, Newman & Guardia, comparing cameras favourably to pen and pencil and explaining how he encountered the N and G advertisement.〔''British Journal of Photography'', 20 July 1900, p. 450.〕 Crockett was well travelled in Europe and beyond, spending time in most European countries and he wrote several novels of European history including ''The Red Axe'', (1898) '' A Tatter of Scarlet'', (1913) and the non fiction '' The Adventurer in Spain'' (1903) which holds its own against Robert Louis Stevenson's travel writing. He died in France on April 16, 1914, and the subsequent outbreak of the First World War meant a delay in his remains being buried in his home kirkyard at Balmaghie. A memorial to him was erected in Laurieston by public subscription in 1932. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「S. R. Crockett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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