Violet Jacob

Violet Jacob

Violet Jacob (1 September, 1863 - 9 September 1946) was a Scottish writer, now known especially for her historical novel "Flemington" and her poetry.

She was born Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine, the daughter of William Henry Kennedy-Erskine (1 July 1828-15 September 1870) of Dun, Forfarshire, a Captain in the 17th Lancers and Catherine Jones (d. 13 February 1914), the only daughter of William Jones of Henllys, Carmarthenshire. Her father was the son of John Kennedy-Erskine (1802-1831) of Dun and Augusta FitzClarence (1803-1865), the illegitimate daughter of King William IV and Dorothy Jordan. Her great grandfather was Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa [Burke's Peerage] .

The area of Montrose where her family seat of Dun was situated was the setting for much of her fiction. She married, on 27 October 1894, Arthur Otway Jacob, an Irish Major in the British Army, and accompanied him to India where he was serving. The couple had no children. Arthur died in 1936, and Violet returned to live at Kirriemuir, in Angus.

Violet Jacob is commemorated in Makars' Court, outside The Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh. Selections for Makars' Court are made by The Writers' Museum; The Saltire Society; The Scottish Poetry Library.

Works

*The Sheepstealers (1902) novel
*The Interloper (1904) novel
*The Golden Heart (1904) novel
*Verses (1905)
*Irresolute Catherine (1908)
*The History of Aythan Waring (1908)
*The Fortune Hunters and Other Stories (1910)
*Flemington (1911)
*Songs of Angus (1915) poems
*More songs of Angus and others (1918) poems
*Bonnie Joan and other poems (1921)
*Tales of my own country (1922) short stories
*The Northern Lights and other poems (1927)
*The good child's year book (1927)
*Lairds of Dun (1931) history
*The Scottish poems of Violet Jacob (1944)
*The Lum hat and other stories: last tales of Violet Jacob (1982)
*Diaries and letters from India 1895-1900 (1990)

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