John Buchan called FLEMINGTON – Violet Jacob’s 1911 novel of the 1745 Jacobite uprising – “the best Scots romantic novel since The Master of Ballantrae”, & the List magazine chose it as one of their Best 100 Scottish Books of All Time
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https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911
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Many of Violet Jacob’s books – including poetry collections – have been digitised & can be read online via the National Library of Scotland
Here’s “The Wild Geese”, from SONGS OF ANGUS (1915)
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https://digital.nls.uk/works-by-selected-scottish-authors/archive/128693603
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A birthday 🧵 for Violet Jacob (1863–1946) – poet, novelist, short story writer, & key figure in the 20th-century Scottish renaissance & Scots language revival – born #OTD, 1 September
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https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/violet-jacob
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Violet Jacob — Scottish Women Writers on the Web
Violet Jacob was a novelist, poet, and short story writer, who is best known for her use of the Scots vernacular. She spent five years in Mhow, India before settling with her husband in Wales, but her short stories are set in the northeast of Scotland, where she was born. Her novels combine the co
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