Reading Crockett Home and Away.
What were they reading ‘down under’ for Christmas 1901?
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Winter’s Work: Snow as Character in Crockett’s Christmas
In S.R. Crockett’s “The Packman’s Pool,” snow isn’t atmospheric backdrop—it’s an active agent executing judgment. Nature as providence in Victorian fiction.
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What is a Cameronian Christmas?
S.R. Crockett’s “The Packman’s Pool” reveals a Christmas without celebration in a Scotland where December 25th was just another winter’s day of work.
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The High Hole in Four: S.R. Crockett’s Golfing Ambition
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.
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No small trees or small stories…
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…