Men of the Moss-Hags

In The Men of the MossHags S.R. Crockett takes as his theme the persecutionof the Covenanters in seventeenthcentury Scotland a favourite subject ofScottish hist... » 

In The Men of the MossHags S.R. Crockett takes as his theme the persecutionof the Covenanters in seventeenthcentury Scotland a favourite subject ofScottish historical novelists. Steeping himself in the documentary sources andoral traditions of The Killing Time Crockett weaves a thrilling adventureromance carrying the reader off with him on a perilous journey across themosshags the peaty bogs of the Galloway moorland. With a new introduction byRichard D. Jackson which outlines Crocketts rivalry over the subject withRobert Louis Stevenson as well as his treatment of sources and the publishinghistory of the novel this edition restores to print a work which like ScottsOld Mortality Hoggs The Brownie of Bodsbeck and Galts Ringan Gilhaizecaptures the sufferings and torments of Scotlands bloodswept past. Richard D.Jackson is a graduate of the University of St Andrews. A former schoolteacherHM Inspector of Schools and retired senior administrative civil servant he coedited The Forest Minstrel for The Collected Works of James Hogg contributesregularly to Studies in Hogg and his World and has published essays in otherjournals on Walter Scott John Buchan and Philip Larkin. «