Violet Jacob

Standard Name: Jacob, Violet

Connections

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Anthologization Liz Lochhead
As well as reading her poetry at festivals and other venues, LL has selected and edited for Mslexia magazine in early 2004 a number of stories and poems on the theme of ice.
Lochhead, Liz. “Ice”. Mslexia, Vol.
20
, pp. 26-7.
26ff
Her...
Friends, Associates Laurence Hope
Both the Nicolsons enjoyed the company of Violet Jacob , whose recollections of LH often tend towards the comical. Dining with Hope in 1898, Jacobs reported: Her wits were at their best. Afterwards she walked...
Friends, Associates Susan Tweedsmuir
ST 's parents made connections through friendship as remarkable as those made for them by family descent. Her mother was a friend of many writers and intellectuals of both sexes, including Marie Belloc Lowndes ,...
Leisure and Society Laurence Hope
As the wife of the Commanding Officer LH held a significant social position, and was a popular hostess. She was nonetheless regarded as eccentric.
Marx, Edward. The Idea of a Colony. University of Toronto Press.
45
Blanch, Lesley. Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star: Travels and Travellers. John Murray.
196
In her diary of 24 March 1897 the Scots...

Timeline

1911: Flemington, a historical novel by Scottish...

Women writers item

1911

Flemington, a historicalnovel by Scottish poet and fiction-writer Violet Jacob (1863-1946), drew a long letter of praise from John Buchan .

Texts

Jacob, Violet. Violet Jacob: Diaries and Letters from India 1895-1900. Editor Anderson, Carol, Canongate, 1990.