Violet Jacob

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

She was born Violet Kennedy-Erskine into an aristocratic family in 1863 near Montrose, Angus, where much of her fiction is set. She married in 1894 Arthur Otway Jacob, an Irish officer in the British Army, and accompanied him to India where he was serving.

Arthur died 1936, and she 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.

[edit] 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)

[edit] External links

• Works by Violet Jacob at Project Gutenberg