The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story

by S. R. Crockett

Credits: S. R. Crockett (author)

Summary

S. R. Crockett's 1894 love story from Galloway in the Scottish south-west. A young woman in a lilac sunbonnet is courted amid dialect, farm life and a Covenanting past. A gentle Kailyard tale that made its author famous. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.

Written by Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI assistant, from the text of the book.

Chapters (41)

  1. 1. The Blanket-Washing
  2. 2. The Mother of King Lemuel
  3. 3. A Treasure-Trove
  4. 4. A Cavalier Puritan
  5. 5. A Lesson in Botany
  6. 6. Curled Eyelashes
  7. 7. Concerning Taking Exercise
  8. 8. The Minister's Man Arms Eor Conquest
  9. 9. The Advent of the Cuif
  10. 10. The Love-Song of the Mavis
  11. 11. Andrew Kissock Goes to School
  12. 12. Midsummer Dawn
  13. 13. A String of the Lilac Sunbonnet
  14. 14. Captain Agnew Greatorix
  15. 15. On the Edge of the Orchard
  16. 16. The Cuif Before the Session
  17. 17. When the Kye Comes Hame
  18. 18. A Daughter of the Picts
  19. 19. At the Barn End
  20. 20. "Dark-Browed Egypt."
  21. 21. The Return of Ebie Farrish
  22. 22. Concerning John Bairdieson
  23. 23. Legitimate Sport
  24. 24. Barriers Breaking
  25. 25. Such Sweet Peril
  26. 26. The Opinions of Saunders Mowdiewort upon Besomshanks
  27. 27. That Gipsy Jess
  28. 28. The Dakk of the Moon at the Gkannoch Bridge
  29. 29. Outcast and Alien from the Commonwealth
  30. 30. Jock Gordon Takes a Hand
  31. 31. The Dew of Their Youth
  32. 32. Over the Hills and Far Awa'
  33. 33. Under the Bed Heather
  34. 34. Before the Reformer's Chair
  35. 35. Jemima, Kezia, and Little Keren-Happuch
  36. 36. A Triangular Conversation
  37. 37. The Meeting of the Synod
  38. 38. Purging and Restoration
  39. 39. Threads Drawn Together
  40. 40. Winsome's Last Tryst
  41. 41. The Last of the Lilac Sunbonnet

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