1. Violet Jacob was a Scottish writer known especially for her historical novel Flemington and for her poetry, mainly in Scots.
11 Facts About Violet Jacob
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Violet Jacob was described by a fellow Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid as "the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets".
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Violet Jacob was a great-granddaughter of Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa.
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Violet Jacob married, at St John's Episcopal Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh, on 27 October 1894, Arthur Otway Jacob, an Irish major in the British Army, and accompanied him to India where he was serving.
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Arthur died in 1936, and Violet returned to live at Kirriemuir, in Angus.
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Violet Jacob died of heart disease on 9 September 1946 and was buried beside her husband at the graveyard at Dun.
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Violet Jacob was described by Hugh MacDiarmid as "by far the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets", a view he did not rescind over a fifty-year period.
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Violet Jacob was particularly known for her poems in the Angus dialect.
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Violet Jacob's poetry was associated with that of Scots revivalists like Marion Angus, Alexander Gray and Lewis Spence, who drew their inspiration from early Scots poets such as Robert Henryson and William Dunbar, rather than from Robert Burns.
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Violet Jacob is commemorated in Makars' Court, outside the Writers' Museum, Lawnmarket, Edinburgh.
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Apart from her collections of poetry and short stories, Violet Jacob published an Erskine family history and five novels, the best known of which is the tragic Flemington, set in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745.