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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.
Teuku Jacob (1929–2007), Indonesian paleoanthropologist; Teun Jacob (1927–2009), Dutch wall painter and sculptor; Thierry Jacob (1965–2024), French professional boxer; Trevor Jacob (born 1993), American snowboarder accused of deliberately crashing his own plane; Ursula Jacob (born 1985), Irish camogie player; Violet Jacob (1863–1946 ...
The Flight of the Heron is a historical novel by British author D. K. Broster, first published in 1925.Set in Scotland during the Jacobite rising of 1745, it follows the developing friendship between two men on opposite sides of the rising: Ewen Cameron, a Highland chieftain and Jacobite, and Keith Windham, an Englishman and an officer in the Government army.
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Denise Marie Nickerson (April 1, 1957 – July 10, 2019) [1] was an American former child actress. At the age of 13, she starred as Violet Beauregarde in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
Violet Constance Jessop (2 October 1887 – 5 May 1971) was an Irish-Argentine ocean liner stewardess and Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse in the early 20th century. Jessop is best known for having survived the sinking of both RMS Titanic in 1912 and her sister ship HMHS Britannic in 1916, as well as having been aboard the eldest of the three sister ships, RMS Olympic, when it collided with the ...
Portrait of a Marriage is a British television miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel, as well as the strength of Vita's enduring marriage to the diplomat Harold Nicolson. Based on the biography of the same name by Nigel Nicolson, it features Janet McTeer as Vita, and Cathryn Harrison as Violet.