Violet Jacob

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Violet Jacob (born September 1, 1863 in Montrose , † September 9, 1946 in Kirriemuir , Angus , Scotland ) was a Scottish writer who is best known today for her historical novel Flemington and her poems. The latter are primarily common in Scottish as Braid Scots .

Life

She was born Violet Augusta Mary Frederica Kennedy-Erskine, the daughter of William Henry Kennedy-Erskine (July 1, 1828 - September 15, 1870) of Dun, Forfarshire, a captain of the 17th Lancers and Catherine Jones († February 13, 1914 ), the only daughter of William Jones of Henllys, Carmarthenshire . Their father was the son of John Kennedy-Erskine (1802–1831) of Dun and Augusta FitzClarence (1803–1865), the illegitimate daughter of King William IV and Dorothea Jordan . This in turn was the great-granddaughter Archibald Kennedy, 1st Marquess of Ailsa.

The area around Montrose, where the Dun family seat was, was the backdrop to many of their stories. Violet married Arthur Otway Jacob, an Irish major in the British Army, on October 27, 1894, and accompanied her husband to India, where he was serving. The couple had a son, Harry (* 1895), who died as a soldier in the First World War at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Arthur Otway Jacob died in 1936, after which Violet returned from India to live in Kirriemuir , Angus .

In her poetry, Violet Jacob was associated with Scottish Revivalists such as Marion Angus , Alexander Gray and Lewis Spence of the Scottish Renaissance, who drew their inspiration more from early Scottish poets such as Robert Henryson and William Dunbar than from Robert Burns .

Her Diaries and letters from India are a good source for the cultural life of the English population in India in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for example on the life of Adela Florence Nicolson .

Works

  • The Sheepstealers (1902) novel
  • The Interloper (1904) novel
  • The Golden Heart (1904) novel
  • Verses (1905)
  • Irresolute Catherine (1908)
  • The History of Aythan Waring (1908)
  • The Fortune Hunters and Other Stories (1910)
  • Flemington (1911) historical novel
  • Songs of Angus (1915) poems
  • More songs of Angus and others (1918) poems
  • Bonnie Joan and other poems (1921)
  • Tales of my own country (1922) short stories
  • The Northern Lights and other poems (1927)
  • The good child's year book (1927)
  • Lairds of Dun (1931) history
  • The Scottish poems of Violet Jacob (1944)
  • The Lum hat and other stories: last tales of Violet Jacob (1982)
  • Diaries and letters from India 1895-1900 (1990)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burke's Peerage
  2. ↑ Scottish Renaissance (2000). In: The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English . Excerpt from: www.credoreference.com
personal data
SURNAME Jacob, Violet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kennedy-Erskine, Violet Augusta Mary Frederica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Montrose (Angus) , Scotland
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 1946
Place of death Kirriemuir , Angus (Scotland) , Scotland