The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
By S. R. Crockett
Cover: To Pastures New (1883), oil on canvas by James Guthrie (1859-1930) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (published 1883)
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.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Table of contents
- 1: The Blanket-Washing
- 2: The Mother of King Lemuel
- 3: A Treasure-Trove
- 4: A Cavalier Puritan
- 5: A Lesson in Botany
- 6: Curled Eyelashes
- 7: Concerning Taking Exercise
- 8: The Minister's Man Arms Eor Conquest
- 9: The Advent of the Cuif
- 10: The Love-Song of the Mavis
- 11: Andrew Kissock Goes to School
- 12: Midsummer Dawn
- 13: A String of the Lilac Sunbonnet
- 14: Captain Agnew Greatorix
- 15: On the Edge of the Orchard
- 16: The Cuif Before the Session
- 17: When the Kye Comes Hame
- 18: A Daughter of the Picts
- 19: At the Barn End
- 20: "Dark-Browed Egypt."
- 21: The Return of Ebie Farrish
- 22: Concerning John Bairdieson
- 23: Legitimate Sport
- 24: Barriers Breaking
- 25: Such Sweet Peril
- 26: The Opinions of Saunders Mowdiewort upon Besomshanks
- 27: That Gipsy Jess
- 28: The Dakk of the Moon at the Gkannoch Bridge
- 29: Outcast and Alien from the Commonwealth
- 30: Jock Gordon Takes a Hand
- 31: The Dew of Their Youth
- 32: Over the Hills and Far Awa'
- 33: Under the Bed Heather
- 34: Before the Reformer's Chair
- 35: Jemima, Kezia, and Little Keren-Happuch
- 36: A Triangular Conversation
- 37: The Meeting of the Synod
- 38: Purging and Restoration
- 39: Threads Drawn Together
- 40: Winsome's Last Tryst
- 41: The Last of the Lilac Sunbonnet