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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... farm . Muir was shown the ruins when he was a man . He had no childhood memories of the place.2 In 1889 his father took the tenancy of the Bu in Wyre . The Bu , with its 93 acres , was the largest farm in the island , and it was a place ...
... farm . Muir was shown the ruins when he was a man . He had no childhood memories of the place.2 In 1889 his father took the tenancy of the Bu in Wyre . The Bu , with its 93 acres , was the largest farm in the island , and it was a place ...
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... farms , Scarth cleared two large areas of Rousay - Quandale and Westness of most of their inhabitants and carried ... farm of 2,800 acres had been created out of land occupied at the time of the 1841 census by no fewer than 215 people ...
... farms , Scarth cleared two large areas of Rousay - Quandale and Westness of most of their inhabitants and carried ... farm of 2,800 acres had been created out of land occupied at the time of the 1841 census by no fewer than 215 people ...
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... farm and people bidded more than the farm was worth . " 3 Yet at the hearing in Kirkwall of the Deer Forests Commission in 1892 , Burroughs ' agent complained that the local crofters would not bid for the larger farms and that there was ...
... farm and people bidded more than the farm was worth . " 3 Yet at the hearing in Kirkwall of the Deer Forests Commission in 1892 , Burroughs ' agent complained that the local crofters would not bid for the larger farms and that there was ...
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