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Assoc for Scottish Literature Sep 1, 2025

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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Assoc for Scottish Literature Sep 1, 2025

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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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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Assoc for Scottish Literature Sep 1, 2025

Violet Jacob’s family had lived at Dun since the 15th century. The House of Dun is now maintained by the National Trust for Scotland. This article features letters written by Violet Jacob & her son, Harry, who joined the British Army in 1914 at the outbreak of WW1

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https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/the-jacob-letters-from-the-house-of-dun

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The Jacob letters from the House of Dun

A small collection of letters relating to Violet Jacob, her son Harry and their friendship with the Kappey family from Windsor.

National Trust for Scotland

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Sep 1, 2025

Harry – Violet Jacob’s only child – died aged just twenty from wounds received at the Battle of the Somme, on 16 July 1916. Jacob’s war poems are some of the most poignant & affecting works from the Home Front.

“To A.H.J.”, from MORE SONGS OF ANGUS & OTHERS (1918)

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Sep 1, 2025

To Marykirk ye’ll set ye forth.
An’ whustle as ye step alang,
An’ aye the Grampians i’ the North
Are glow’rin’ on ye as ye gang…

—Violet Jacob, “The Road to Marykirk”

Published in MORE SONGS OF ANGUS & OTHERS (1918)

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Sep 1, 2025

But gin the auld fowks’ tales are richt
An’ ghaists come hame on Hallow nicht,
O freend o’ freends! what wad I gie
To feel ye rax yer hand to me
Atween the dark an’ caun’le-licht?

Listen to Sheena Wellington & Karine Polwart sing Violet Jacob’s poem “Hallowe’en”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FisdvJmgVNY

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Halloween ~ Sheena Wellington and Karine Polwart

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Assoc for Scottish Literature Sep 1, 2025

Some of Violet Jacob’s works are available to download as free ebooks via @gutenberg_org

4 novels: Flemington, The Sheep-Stealers, Irresolute Catherine, & The Interloper;
2 poetry collections: Bonnie Joann, and Other Poems, & Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus;
The Golden Heart, & Other Fairy Stories

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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7709

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