Irresolute Catherine

Jacob (nee Kennedy-Erskine, 1863-1946) was a Scottish writer best-remembered for her historical novel Flemington (1911) and her poetry. Her paternal grandmother was the illegitimate daughter of William IV and Dorothy Jordan. The area of Montrose where the family seat of Dun was situated was the setting for much of her fiction. Following her marriage in 1894 to an Irish major in the British Army she accompanied him to India where he was serving, later publishing a book of diaries and letters about their stay in the central Indian town of Mhow. This short novel was first published in 1908.