Passages in the Life of an English Heiress; Or, Recollections of Disruption Times in Scotland. [By Mrs. Hugh Miller.].

Passages in the Life of an English Heiress; Or, Recollections of Disruption Times in Scotland. [By Mrs. Hugh Miller.]. PDF Author: ENGLISH HEIRESS.
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Passages in the Life of an English Heiress; Or, Recollections of Disruption Times in Scotland. [By Mrs. Hugh Miller.].

Passages in the Life of an English Heiress; Or, Recollections of Disruption Times in Scotland. [By Mrs. Hugh Miller.]. PDF Author: ENGLISH HEIRESS.
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Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: M-P

Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature: M-P PDF Author: Samuel Halkett
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms, English
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Dicitonary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature

Dicitonary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature PDF Author:
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Celebrating the Life and Times of Hugh Miller

Celebrating the Life and Times of Hugh Miller PDF Author: Lester Borley
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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Lydia

Lydia PDF Author: Elizabeth Sutherland
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781862322219
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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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.

A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain...

A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain... PDF Author: Samuel Halkett
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Languages : en
Pages : 446

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Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts

Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 938

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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts

Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts PDF Author:
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 900

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Chambers's Journal

Chambers's Journal PDF Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 978

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Hugh Miller

Hugh Miller PDF Author: Michael A. Taylor
Publisher: National Museums of Scotland
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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After the 200-year anniversary of his birth in 2002, this biography brings this genius who called geology the most poetical of all the sciences to a wider audience.