S.R. Crockett / Samuel Rutherford Crockett

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    41 Books
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    March 2002
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    July 2023
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Samuel Rutherford Crockett was a Scottish novelist. He was born at Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, the illegitimate son of dairymaid Annie Crocket. He was raised on his grandfather's Galloway farm, won a bursary to Edinburgh University in 1876, and graduated from there during 1879.

After some years of travel, he became in 1886 the Free Kirk 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 when Crockett published his successful story of The Stickit Minister in 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.

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 16 April 1914.

Book List in Order: 41 titles

  • The Raiders

    Caught up in the strife between smugglers on the Solway Coast and the gypsies of Galloway, young Patrick Heron is flung into a society of social outcasts, outlaws and downright murderers. But this world of moonlit confusion and bloody horror offers a...

  • The Black Douglas

    Written by S. R. Crockett in 1899, The Black Douglas is the story of William, Earl of Douglas’s struggle to keep his lands in the hand of the Douglas clan. With enemies like King James II of Scotland and his uncle, the Red Douglas, closing in, Will...

  • The Stickit Minister

    S.R. Crockett's The Stickit Minister and some common men, published in 1893, was among the best-selling works of fiction of the decade. Set mostly in Galloway, in the south west of Scotland, these spirited tales offer an entertaining blend of wry hum...

  • The Lilac Sunbonnet

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.As Ralph Peden came along the dusty Cairn Edward road from the coach which had set him down there on its way to the Ferry town, he paused to rest in the evening light at the head of the Long Wood of Larbrax....

  • Patsy

    Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860-1914), was a Scottish novelist. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1879. After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik. In that year he produced his first publication, Dulce Cor, a collectio...

  • The Grey Man

    The Grey Man is a fast-paced adventure romance set in Ayrshire, Scotland, in the reign of James VI. Written when S.R. Crockett was at the height of his power and popularity as a novelist, the story deals with the violent feud between the Kennedys of ...

  • The Men of the Moss-Hags

    In The Men of the Moss-Hags, S.R. Crockett takes as his theme the persecution of the Covenanters in seventeenth-century Scotland, a favourite subject of Scottish historical novelists. Steeping himself in the documentary sources and oral traditions of...

  • The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Tain Bo Cualnge ''The Cualnge Cattle-Raid''

    According to Wikipedia: Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 - 16 April 1914) was a Scottish novelist, born at Duchrae, Galloway, the son of a farmer. He was raised on a Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University during 1879. Aft...

  • The Birthright

    According to Wikipedia: Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 - 16 April 1914) was a Scottish novelist, born at Duchrae, Galloway, the son of a farmer. He was raised on a Galloway farm, and graduated from Edinburgh University during 1879. Aft...



  • Maid Margaret Of Galloway - The Life Story Of Her Whom Four Centuries Have Called The Fair Maid Of Galloway

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  • Silver Sand

  • The Standard Bearer

    The Standard Bearer is one of S.R. Crockett's Covenanting tales and a work that lay close to his heart. Dedicated to 'the Good and Kindly Folk of my native parish of Balmaghie', the story is set at the turn of the eighteenth century and takes its ins...

  • Lochinvar

  • Love's Young Dream

  • The Silver Skull

    Although S. R. Crockett's longest love affair was with his Scottish birth-parish of Galloway, he liked to mock himself by quoting Satan's reply to the Lord when asked from whence he came: 'From going to and fro in the earth and, from walking up and d...

  • Deep Moat Grange

    This is a good English village mystery, told from the point of view of an 18 year old boy. The story has bits of humor, some romance, interesting characters, and some gothic elements. The mystery begins with Joe and his friend Elsie finding the empt...

  • The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion with Those of General Napoleon Smith

  • Sweethearts at Home

    It was at Neuchatel, under the trees by the lake, that I first became conscious of what wonderful assistance Sweetheart might be to me in my literary work. She corrected me as to the date upon which we had made our pilgrimage to Chaumont, as to the c...

  • A Tatter of Scarlet



  • Joan of the Sword Hand

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  • Tales of Our Coast

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  • Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City

  • The Stickit Minister's Wooing and Other Galloway Stories

  • Little Anna Mark


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  • Cinderella

    Excerpt from Cinderella The child is not a pretty child. She is brown-skinned like her father, and has her mother's wide mouth! This was the dictum spoken authoritatively by Hester's aunt as, suddenly grown shy and awkward, that trembling mite stood ...

  • Sandy

  • The Adventurer in Spain

    Samuel Rutherford Crockett (24 September 1859 - 16 April 1914), who published under the name "S. R. Crockett," was a Scottish novelist.He was born at Duchrae, Balmaghie, Kirkcudbrightshire, on 24 September 1859, the illegitimate son of dairymaid Anni...

  • Flower-o'-the Corn

  • Flower-o'-the Corn [a Novel]



  • Little Esson

    This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor p...

  • Love Idylls

    A collection of short stories from S.R.Crockett first published in 1901. These are longer stories previously serialised and offer a miscellany of his best selling stories. Crockett’s ironic use of the word ‘idyll’ is evident through...

  • Mad Sir Uchitred of the Hills

  • The White Plume

  • Bog-Myrtle And Peat

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    Even when I arise and walk out in the dawn, as is my custom winter and summer, still I have visions of this book of mine, of which I now remember that the mystic name is "The Book Sealed." Sometimes in these dreams of the morning, as I walk abroad, I...

  • Complete Mystery Romance Humorous-Patsy,Red Cap Tales,Black Douglas,Joan of the Sword Hand,Bog-Myrtle and Peat,Red Axe

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    The Lilac Sunbonnet (1894)Mr. Crockett's 'Lilac Sun-Bonnet' 'needs no bush.' Here is a pretty love tale, and the landscape and rural descriptions carry the exile back into the Kingdom of Galloway. Here, indeed, is the scent of bog-myrtle and peat. Af...

  • The Dew Of Their Youth

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    I, Duncan MacAlpine, school-master's son and uncovenanted assistant to my father, stood watching the dust which the Highflyer coach had left between me and Sandy Webb, the little guard thereof, as he whirled onward into the eye of the west. It was th...

  • The Firebrand

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  • Lads' Love

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    This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts ...

  • The Red Axe

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    Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860-1914), was a Scottish novelist. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1879. After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik. In that year he produced his first publication, Dulce Cor, a collectio...



  • Red Cap Tales

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    Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1860-1914), was a Scottish novelist. He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1879. After some years of travel he became in 1886 minister of Penicuik. In that year he produced his first publication, Dulce Cor, a collectio...

  • The White Plumes Of Navarre

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    A former minister, S R Crockett gave up his position in the Free Church to take up novel wriiting. He is best known for his works set in his native Scotland. This Romance of the Wars of Religion was first published in 1906....

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S.R. Crockett / Samuel Rutherford Crockett has published 41 books.

S.R. Crockett / Samuel Rutherford Crockett does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Love Idylls, was published in July 2023.

The first book by S.R. Crockett / Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Raiders, was published in March 2002.

No. S.R. Crockett / Samuel Rutherford Crockett does not write books in series.
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