Violet Jacob
1863–1946
Biography
Violet Jacob was a Scottish writer who lived from 1863 to 1946. She is known for two kinds of work: historical fiction, above all the novel Flemington, and poetry written mainly in Scots, the older vernacular of Scotland. Her poems often draw on Scottish country life and the way ordinary people spoke.
Her contemporaries took her verse seriously. Hugh MacDiarmid, one of the leaders of the Scottish Renaissance, counted her among the most important writers of her day in Scots. Flemington showed her skill with the past, while her poems showed her ear for the language of everyday Scottish life.
The site holds her book Verses, a good starting point for her poetry. Her work belongs to the wider revival of Scottish writing in her lifetime, when many authors turned back to Scotland's own languages and traditions and asked what a Scottish voice in print could sound like.
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Books
Verses
by Violet Jacob
Violet Jacob's first book of poems moves from English garden lyrics and ballads to the sights of India, where she lived with her soldier husband. A closing run of Indian poems takes in a mango grove, an opium field, a Mohammedan graveyard and a distant temple. This book uses the…
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