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2. Violet Jacob - Wikipedia

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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".

3. House of Dun - Wikipedia

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   When they married they moved to the property and Augusta set about making several alterations, modernizing the property. The writer and poet Violet Jacob (1863–1946), author of Flemington and Tales of Angus, was a member of the Kennedy-Erskine family and was born in the house. The last Laird of Dun was Millicent Lovett.

4. Cattaraugus Cutlery Company - Wikipedia

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   Case Pocket Knives. 2002. Retrieved 2008-04-22. "Take Cattaraugus" Explorers Advised Admiral Byrd. Advertisement. Cattaraugus Cutlery Company. Place, Rich (August 7, 2015). "Former Cattaraugus Cutlery Co. building goes up in flames." Salamanca Press. Retrieved August 8, 2015.

5. Sgian-dubh - Wikipedia

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   The name comes from the Scottish Gaelic sgian-dubh, from sgian ('knife') and dubh ('black', also with the secondary meaning of 'hidden'. [2]). Although sgian is feminine, so that a modern Gael might refer to a black knife as sgian dhubh, the term for the ceremonial knife is a set-phrase containing a historical form with blocked lenition.

6. Marion Angus - Wikipedia

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   Voices from Their Ain Countrie: The Poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob, ed. Katherine Gordon (Glasgow: Association for Scottish Literary Studies, 2006). ISBN 0-948877-76-6. This includes selections from most of Angus's published volumes. An introductory study by the author is available online: Retrieved 8 December 2011.

7. Scottish Renaissance - Wikipedia

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   As writers such as George Douglas Brown railed against the "Kailyard school" that had come to dominate Scottish letters, producing satiric, realist accounts of Scottish rural life in novels like The House with the Green Shutters (1901), Scots language poets such as Violet Jacob and Marion Angus undertook a quiet revival of regionally inflected ...