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Violet Jacob

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Violet Jacob
BornViolet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine
1 September 1863
Dee'd9 September 1946
Kent forPoetry
Hauf-marrae(s)Arthur Otway Jacob (m. 1894–1936)

Violet Jacob (1 September 1863 – 9 September 1946) wis a Scots writer, kent maistly for her historical novel Flemington an her poetry, maistly in Scots.[1] Hugh MacDiarmid cried her "by far the most considerable of contemporary vernacular poets".[2] Her faimily's estate wis at Dun in Angus, an the coonty wis the settin for muckle o her fiction.

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  1. ↑ Anderson, Carol (25 Mey 2006). "Jacob [née Kennedy-Erskine], Violet Augusta Mary Frederica". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58422. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. ↑ MacDiarmid, Hugh (1925). Contemporary Scottish Studies.