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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".
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.
List of Scottish novelists is an incomplete alphabetical list of Scottish novelists. ... Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Flemington; Robert Alan Jamieson (born 1958)
1 September – Violet Jacob, born Violet Kennedy-Erskine, historical novelist and poet (died 1946) 13 September – Arthur Henderson, first Labour Party cabinet minister and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize (died 1935 in England) 5 December – George Pirie, painter (died 1946)
Violet Jacob (1863–1946), Scottish poet writing in Scots; E. Pauline Johnson (1861–1913), Canadian poet; Magdalene Isadora La Grange (1864–1935), American poet; Else Lasker-Schüler (1869–1945), German poet and playwright; Mirra Lokhvitskaya (1869–1905), Russian poet; Elizabeth Roberts MacDonald (1864–1922), Canadian poet and writer
SNP MSP Fergus Ewing will read from The Wild Geese by Violet Jacob. Conservative MP Sir David Davis, who shared a long friendship with Salmond despite a political divide, will read from John: 14.
Violet Jacob (1863–1946, Scotland, f/p) Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi (1743–1819, Germany, nf) Johann Georg Jacobi (1740–1814, Germany, p) Anna Jacobs (born 1941 ...
Scottish football: 1945–46 • 1946–47: Events from the year 1946 in Scotland. Incumbents ... 9 September – Violet Jacob, historical novelist (born 1863)