'I think it is the best Scots romance since The Master of Ballantrae,' said John Buchan when Flemington was first published in 1911. Violet 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.Drawn back to these roots in her later years, Violet Jacob also wrote many unforgettable short stories about the people, the landscapes and the language of the North-east. In this volume fourteen of these stories are re-collected and re-edited as Tales from Angus.

Flemington And Tales From Angus (Canongate Classics S)

Literature & Fiction

Jacob, Violet

British & Irish

CANONGATE BOOKS *

Written in 1911, and set in and around Montrose on the east coast of Scotland, this gripping historical novel highlights action and intrigue in the aftermath of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1745, in which powerful characters are driven against each other by the political turmoil of the times.

Flemington (Asls Annual Volume Series)

Anderson, Carol

Assn for Scottish Literary Studies

Published in 2006, this volume marks the 60th anniversary of the deaths of two significant 20th century Scottish poets: Marion Angus and Violet Jacob. More than 200 of their passionate and radical poems are included in this comprehensive anthology, along with an overview of each poet's life, a short synopsis of major themes in their poetry, and notes on individual poems, providing an invaluable critical background for a full appreciation of their work.

Voices from Their Ain Countrie: The Poems of Marion Angus and Violet Jacob (Association for Scottish Literary Studies)

Angus, Marion

Poetry

The Sheep-stealers

Literary

Legare Street Press

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

Bonnie Joann

History

World

BiblioLife

Verses

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