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Violet Jacob (1 September 1863 – 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer known especially for her historical novel Flemington and for her poetry, mainly in Scots. She was described by a fellow Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets".
7 de jul. de 2022 · Violet Jacob received an honorary degree from the University of Edinburgh in 1936. Scotland had taken her poetry to heart, and there it has remained – her poem ‘The Wild Geese’ was shortlisted for BBC Radio Scotland’s poll of the nation’s favourite poems in 2006.
20 de jul. de 2021 · Violet Jacob was a novelist, poet, and short story writer, who is best known for her use of the Scots vernacular. She spent five years in Mhow, India before settling with her husband in Wales, but her short stories are set in the northeast of Scotland, where she was born.
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Summary. Violet Jacob (1863-1946), bom Violet Kennedy-Erskine, enjoyed some success in the early twentieth century with her novels and short stories, and her poetry in the Lowland Scots tongue.
Violet Jacob (1 September 1863– 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer, now known especially for her historical novel Flemington and her poetry, mainly in Scots.
Violet Jacob. The Wild Geese downloadable Word document. from Songs of Angus (John Murray, 1915), and included in Voices From Their Ain Countrie: the poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob, edited by Katherine Gordon (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2006)
Description. Violet Jacob (1863-1946) was born into an aristocratic family who had lived at the House of Dun near Montrose since the 15th century. Her classic novel of the 1745 Jacobite rising, 'Flemington” (1911), was highly regarded by John Buchan and is still in print.
