Word: scotchman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...might be named, than would have been expected from a writer of his imagination and other rich gifts. Mrs. Oliphant, Mrs. Walford, and even Mrs. Gaskill have written stories after the manner of the novel-chapter already referred to, and only Mr. Kipling, an Anglo-Indian, and Stevenson, a Scotchman, among contemporary British writers have had uniform artistic success in this sort of work. Guy de Maupassant is the master of contemporary French authors in the conte...
Stevenson had a hard struggle for fame and enjoyed it only for a short time. He was not known to the world before "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde." Possessing a talent without a dominant impulse, what he accomplished was done with hard work. He never ceased to be a Scotchman; for though he went to Samoa to keep alive, he always longed for the "hills and home." This is seen not only in his verses but all through "David Balfour." Stevenson died on the third day of this month. He was carried to the top of a high mountain...
...time of Elizabeth, when the passion for the drama was very marked that the Scotchman Ben Jonson came forward. After his father's death his mother married again. This stepfather sent Jonson to Westminster school, where he studied to great advantage. Rumor says that he afterward went to Cambridge, and was expelled, but the fact remains that when he should have been studying he was off to the army. In 1597 he returned to London, but he always retained a certain coarseness of the soldier. At the age of twenty he married and to support his wife found his life...
Strangely, in Barbour's work, Wallace does not figure. Contemporary with Bar bour, however, came the author of the so called Blind Harry's "Wallace" a long poem sounding the praises of the great Scotchman, This poem had an influence later on Burns and Scott. About the same time came Andrew Winton who wrote the "Chronicles of Scotland." Winton had no marked literary gift and his work is not any great. It has, however, certain interest for the antiquarian...