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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... rent would have seemed a fortune to most of the crofters . Wyre itself , low - lying and fertile , was in marked ... rental and kept a cow and a sheep had belonged to the community for generations ; their holdings seldom changed hands ...
... rent would have seemed a fortune to most of the crofters . Wyre itself , low - lying and fertile , was in marked ... rental and kept a cow and a sheep had belonged to the community for generations ; their holdings seldom changed hands ...
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... rent , Muir had to find the capital to buy stock . The crofters with one cow and one sheep were having difficulty in meeting rents of £ 3 per annum . Muir would have needed considerably more stock to raise a rent of twenty times that ...
... rent , Muir had to find the capital to buy stock . The crofters with one cow and one sheep were having difficulty in meeting rents of £ 3 per annum . Muir would have needed considerably more stock to raise a rent of twenty times that ...
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... rents in cash were turning the lairds into rent collectors even before the Crofters Act . The Act , by restricting their power to increase rents and evict tenants 98 IN A DISTANT ISLE.
... rents in cash were turning the lairds into rent collectors even before the Crofters Act . The Act , by restricting their power to increase rents and evict tenants 98 IN A DISTANT ISLE.
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