#violetjacob — Public Fediverse posts

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

8/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #novels #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #fairytales

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

8/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #novels #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #fairytales

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

8/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #novels #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #fairytales

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

8/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #novels #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #fairytales

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

8/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #novels #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #fairytales

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?

—Sheena Wellington & Karine Polwart sing Violet Jacob’s achingly sad poem “Hallowe’en”

7/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #ww1

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?

—Sheena Wellington & Karine Polwart sing Violet Jacob’s achingly sad poem “Hallowe’en”

7/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #ww1

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?

—Sheena Wellington & Karine Polwart sing Violet Jacob’s achingly sad poem “Hallowe’en”

7/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #ww1

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?

—Sheena Wellington & Karine Polwart sing Violet Jacob’s achingly sad poem “Hallowe’en”

7/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #ww1

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?

—Sheena Wellington & Karine Polwart sing Violet Jacob’s achingly sad poem “Hallowe’en”

7/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #ww1

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)

6/8

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #WW1

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)

6/8

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #WW1

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)

6/8

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #WW1

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)

6/8

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #WW1

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)

6/8

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #warpoetry #WW1

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)

5/8

#Scottish #literature #warpoetry #WW1 #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

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)

5/8

#Scottish #literature #warpoetry #WW1 #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

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)

5/8

#Scottish #literature #warpoetry #WW1 #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

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)

5/8

#Scottish #literature #warpoetry #WW1 #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

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)

5/8

#Scottish #literature #warpoetry #WW1 #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

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

4/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #WW1

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

4/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #WW1

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

4/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #WW1

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

4/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #WW1

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

4/8

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

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #WW1

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

3/8

https://list.co.uk/news/39550/violet-jacob-flemington-1911

#Scottish #literature #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob

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)

2/8

https://digital.nls.uk/works-by-selected-scottish-authors/archive/128693603

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #Scots #Scotslanguage

A 🎂 🧵 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

1/8

https://www.scottishwomenwritersontheweb.net/writers-a-to-z/violet-jacob

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob