Samuel Rutherford Crockett, who published under the name "S. R. Crockett", was a Scottish novelist.
Crockett's breakthrough year occurred in 1894 when T.Fisher Unwin published no fewer than four of his works, The Raiders, The Lilac Sunbonnet, The PlayActress and Mad Sir Uchtred of the Hills. Crockett was one of the new breed of professional writers emerging in the late 19th century whose work was written for the emerging popular 'mass market' readership.
His contemporary J. M. Barrie had already created a demand for stories in Lowland Scots, with his sketches of Thrums in the late 1880s. R. L. Stevenson a corresponding friend of both writers, described the relationship thus: 'you are out of doors and Barrie is indoors' in a letter in 1893.
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