biography
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Crockett, Samuel Rutherford
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1860–1914)
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| biography:
| Popular novelist, born in Little Duchrae, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. He studied at Edinburgh University and New College, Edinburgh, and became a Free Church minister in Penicuik. He wrote sardonic congregational sketches, of which 24, collected as The Stickit Minister (1893), brought immediate fame. Resigning the ministry for full-time writing in 1895, he wrote a variety of books, including tales of mediaeval Scotland, European historical romances, and (often sensational) stories of mining, industrialism, and Edinburgh slums. |
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