Thematic writing that traces Crockett’s links to people, places, and ideas — literary, historical, and emotional. These pieces illuminate the threads that bind his work to wider cultural landscapes and contemporary relevance, offering readers clear connections across time and context.
In April 1895, Cassell’s Family Magazine published an interview with S. R. Crockett under the title ‘A Novelist’s Training: A Talk with Mr. S. R. Crockett at Penicuik.’ The first photograph shows Crockett with a Hammond Ideal typewriter.
When Matt Weston won Olympic gold in the skeleton at Cortina this February, British commentators reached, almost instinctively, for the same image: a tea tray. Something about a human being hurtling head-first down a sheet of ice resists technical vocabulary and demands the domestic and the comic instead. S.R. Crockett would have understood completely.
When J.M. Barrie’s 1904 Peter Pan featured a scene remarkably similar to one in S.R. Crockett’s 1896 Cleg Kelly, was it plagiarism or creative influence? Textual analysis reveals how writers function as literary magpies, transforming borrowed material through friendship and mutual respect into something entirely new.
When S.R. Crockett wanted to share his golfing triumph in October 1896, he wrote to Dan Mowat, a Glasgow bookseller with whom he shared interests in books and golf.
Discover how S.R. Crockett’s fiction preserves Galloway’s lost woodland heritage and offers prescient environmental insights for our own time.
The Clogger and the Silver Birch: S.R. Crockett’s Comedy of Perspective In Raiderland, (1904) Crockett writes: Carlinwark is hardly a loch. I have heard it called a duck-pond. Well, if so, blessed be the ducks that swim in that pearl…
Explore S.R. Crockett’s Gothic masterpiece: a tale of betrayal, class exploitation, and supernatural justice set in Victorian Galloway’s dark waters.
This 2016 article from the Galloway Raiders archive explores the profound connection between nineteenth-century Scottish author S. R. Crockett (1859-1914) and his native Galloway.