Apart from her collections of poetry and short stories, Violet Jacob published an Erskine family history ("Lairds of Dun", 1931) and five novels, the best known of which is the tragic "Flemington" (1911; reissued in 1994). Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, "Flemington" was described by John Buchan as "the best Scots romance since "The Master of Ballantrae"".