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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".
Actor. [1] Bert Lahr: August 13, 1895 December 4, 1967 American Part of the comic act Lahr & Mercedes, a comic act. Later gained fame as an actor in films, most notably as the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 film, The Wizard of Oz. [2] [3] Leona LaMar: October 26, 1883 April 22, 1941 American Mentalist [4] Bessie Lamb: c. 1878 October 30, 1907 American
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.
August 18 – Marion Angus, Scottish poet (born 1865) August 31 – Harley Granville-Barker, English actor, dramatist and critic (born 1877) September 9 – Violet Jacob, Scottish historical novelist and poet (born 1863) September 21 – Lydia J. Newcomb Comings, American author, educator, lecturer (born 1850)
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
Baker first ventured onstage with the encouragement of actor, Jacob Adler and later, producer, Lew Leslie. Her debut in vaudeville was in Scranton, Pennsylvania at the age of 15 and she debuted in big-time vaudeville at Hammerstein's Theatre in New York in 1911. As a singer and actress, she established her name in vaudeville as "The Ragtime ...
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Heinrich Eduard Jacob (1889–1967, Germany/US, nf) Max Jacob (1876–1944, France, p/f), Holocaust victim; 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, England/Australia, f) Christianne Meneses Jacobs (born 1971, Nicaragua/US ...