In a Distant Isle: The Orkney Background of Edwin MuirScottish Academic Press, 1987 - 184 pages Om social velfærd i Storbritannien, USA, Frankrig, Vesttyskland, Sverige, Østtyskland og Indien |
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... Burroughs , appears in An Autobiography and in one of Muir's poems , " The Little General " . Burroughs was an exotic import to the islands . Of partly French , partly Irish , and partly English descent , but with fairly remote ...
... Burroughs , appears in An Autobiography and in one of Muir's poems , " The Little General " . Burroughs was an exotic import to the islands . Of partly French , partly Irish , and partly English descent , but with fairly remote ...
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... Burroughs began to squeeze the tenants . By 1880 their arrears amounted to a sum equal to one third of the total rental . Burroughs was not alone in this attitude to his tenants . He was perhaps typical of his generation of Highland ...
... Burroughs began to squeeze the tenants . By 1880 their arrears amounted to a sum equal to one third of the total rental . Burroughs was not alone in this attitude to his tenants . He was perhaps typical of his generation of Highland ...
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... Burroughs ' kinsman and his predecessor as laird of Rousay , was found dead in the lavatory of his London club . The event was a telling , if macabre , demonstration of the proximity of Orkney to the rest of the world . William Thomson ...
... Burroughs ' kinsman and his predecessor as laird of Rousay , was found dead in the lavatory of his London club . The event was a telling , if macabre , demonstration of the proximity of Orkney to the rest of the world . William Thomson ...
Table des matières
Introduction I | 1 |
References | 159 |
List of Sources | 170 |
Droits d'auteur | |
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ation Autobiography ballads belief boyhood Burroughs Calvinism Calvinist Chapter childhood Church of Scotland congregation crofters Crofting Cursiter Dennison dream Edinburgh Edwin Muir Egilsay Eliade emigration Ernest Marwick evictions exile experience Fable farm farmers father Free Church George Mackay Brown George William Traill Glasgow Golden Age Highlands hill horses houses ibid innocence James Muir John Firth Kirkwall Burgh School labyrinth laird land landlord landscape lived M'Callum memory ministers Muir family Muir's Muir's poetry myth Napier Commission neighbours never nineteenth century Norse North Ronaldsay nostalgia Orcadian Orkney Archives Orkney Herald Paradise parish past peasant plough poem poet religion religious remembered rent road Robert Scarth Rousay Sanday Scots Scottish Journey Secession Church seems Selected Letters society songs Stanley Cursiter Statistical Account story suggests symbol teacher tenants theme traditional Trumland United Presbyterian Church wall Walter Traill Dennison Willa Muir writing wrote Wyre