Author: Hugh MillerPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Letter from Hugh Miller to Henry Mackenzie
Author: Hugh MillerLetter from Henry Mackenzie to Hugh Blair
Author: Henry MackenzieLetter from Hugh Miller to [? Lorne] Henry Hughes
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Author: Hugh MillerHugh Miller
Author: W. Keith LeaskPublisher: DigiCat
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Hugh Miller is a biography by W Keith Leask. Miller was a self-taught Scottish geologist and author, folklorist and an evangelical Christian. He is considered one of the most influential Victorian paleontologists, mainly in conveying science to a broader audience.
Sketches of Early Scotch History and Social Progress
Author: Cosmo InnesPublisher:
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Category : Home economics
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Letter from Hugh Miller to James Blackwood
Author: Hugh MillerLetter [draft] from Hugh Miller to Sir R.I. Murchison
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Author: Hugh MillerHugh Miller's Memoir
Author: Hugh MillerPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The centrepiece of this book is the autobiographical memoir written by the celebrated Scottish geologist, writer and newspaper editor Hugh Miller from 1829 to 1830. It is, by any standards, a remarkable document from a remarkable man. Vivid and, for its time, unusually informative, it offers a rare insight into the life and thinking of a figure whose violent progress through school in Cromarty and stormy apprenticeship as a stonemason inspired him to seek refuge in the world of letters.
Scottish Men of Letters and the New Public Sphere, 1802-1834
Author: Barton SwaimPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780838757161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Each of the writings this book deals with were influenced by and capitalized on certain aspects of Scottish culture in the late-18th and early 19th centuries and those cultural influences combined to forge a rhetorical approach that practically guaranteed the Scottish men of letters a dominant place in the public sphere. This book covers the Edinburgh Review in and as the public sphere 1802-08; Christopher North and the review essay as conversational exhibition; Lockhart's modified amateurism and the shame of authorship; and the Presbyterian sermon, Carlyle's homiletic essays, and Scottish periodical writing.
Lydia
Author: Elizabeth SutherlandPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781862322219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The name and writings of Hugh Miller, born in Cromarty in 1802, have always been and still are well known. Apart from an entry in the Dictionary of National Biography, his wife, Lydia, born in Inverness in 1812, has remained undeservedly in obscurity. Now, in this book, she is at last brought on stage. Here Elizabeth Sutherland tells us of Lydia's upbringing and education, and the romantic story of how she fell in love with and married a 'plain working man', as Hugh described himself, with little formal education and apparently few prospects. We are taken through the tragedy of the early death in Cromarty of their first-born child to their move to Edinburgh in 1840 when Hugh was appointed editor of The Witness newspaper. We learn how their deep love and Lydia's active help supported Hugh through the difficult years leading up to the Disruption in the Church of Scotland in 1843, in which he played such an important part, and beyond, while she became a published, though anonymous, author herself. Her life until her death in 1876, and that of her children, after Hugh's suicide in 1856, is described, and we discover how, to the detriment of her own health, she devoted the first six years of her widowhood to editing and publishing posthumously her husband's writings, which otherwise might never have become available to the public. As the Introduction by Lydia's great-great-granddaughter explains, prime source material for this study has been scarce, but from such as there is, and from extensive further research, a fascinating picture has been skilfully built up to reveal a remarkable woman, whose love and strength were a vital ingredient in Hugh's lasting reputation.