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Book SynopsisViolet Jacob (1863-1946) was born Violet Kennedy-Erskine at the family-home at Dun near Montrose on the north-east coast of Scotland. Erskines has lived at the House of Dun since the 15th century and Violet published the family history as The Lairds of Dun in 1931. Her father died when Violet was young and she lost a sister and a brother in later years, but her childhood was a happy one and she retained a close attachment to the countryside and the broad Scots spoken there. She was artistic with a penchant for flower illustration, and some of her early works and her diaries from India contained drawings and paintings.
In 1894 she married Arthur Jacob, an Irish officer serving in the British Army. After the birth of her son Harry in 1895, Violet joined her husband ion service in India where she recorded her experiences for the next four years in letters and diaries (published by Canongate in 1990). It was during this time that she began her first novel, The Sheepsteal
