Mr Crockett's Novels
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Title
Mr Crockett's Novels
Type
Review
Creator
William Wallace
Publisher
The Academy (London)
Description
Review of three novels by S.R. Crockett (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894): The Raiders, Mad Sir Uchtred of the Hills, and The Lilac Sunbonnet. Assesses The Raiders as superior to The Lilac Sunbonnet in style and narrative flow, and dismisses Mad Sir Uchtred as an historical impertinence. Includes a charge of plagiarism regarding the chapter 'The Cuif before the Session' in The Lilac Sunbonnet, alleged to derive from Dugald Graham's chapbook 'Jockey and Maggy's Courtship, Part III' (1779, reprinted 1883). Compares Crockett throughout with Barrie and Stevenson.
Source
The Academy: A Weekly Review of Literature, Science, and Art, Vol. XLVI, No. 1174, 3 November 1894, pp. 344–346
Relation
https://srcrockett.scot/library/Reviews/MAG197_Acad_Wallace_Nov3_1894.pdf
Collection
Citation
William Wallace, “Mr Crockett's Novels,” S.R.Crockett Museum, accessed August 25, 2026, https://srcrockett.scot/themuseum/items/show/1386.