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Violet Jacob

Violet Jacob

Violet Jacob, nee Kennedy-Erskine, (1863-1946) was born at the family home at Dun near Montrose on the north-east coast of Scotland, where her family had lived since the fifteenth-century. In 1894 she married Arthur Jacob, an Irish officer serving in the British Army. They lived in India for four years, where she recorded her experiences in journals and diaries, and begun her first novel, The Sheepstealers. Violet returned to England when her husband was called to South Africa: apart from a spell together in Egypt they lived together in garrison towns in England. After the success of The Sheepstealers, Jacob continued to write novels and short stories.

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Flemington

Flemington


ISBN: 9780862417840
Category: Fiction
Author: Violet Jacob
Publication Date: June 2008
Format: Paperback
Price: £7.99
Stock Status: in stock  
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Synopsis:

Jacob's fifth and finest novel is a tragic drama of the 1745 Jacobite Rising: tightly written, poetic in its symbolic intensity, lit by flashes of humour and informed by the author's own family history as one of the Erskines of the House of Dun near Montrose.


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