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Ian Maclaren

Scottish author

Also known as: John Watson

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association with Kailyard school

In Kailyard school
…A Window in Thrums (1889), Ian Maclaren (pseudonym of John Watson), and S.R. Crockett were widely read throughout Scotland, England, and the United States and inspired many imitators. The natural and unsophisticated style and parochial viewpoint quickly degenerated into mawkish sentimentality, which provoked a hostile reaction among contemporary Scottish realists…
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