Social Victorians/People/Violet Tweedale
Also Known As
edit- Family names: Chambers, Tweedale
- Mrs. Violet Tweedale (Howe 52)
- Miss Violet Chambers (signature in the "Golden Dawn Address Book" (Küntz 182)
- Golden Dawn motto: Facta Non Verba — "Deeds, not words" (Küntz 182)
- The family name of the Marquess of Tweedale is Hay, so no near relations there to her husband.
Demographics
edit- Nationality:
Family
edit- Violet Chambers (1862 – 10 December 1936)
- Clarens Tweedale ()
Relations
edit- Robert Chambers, editor of Chambers' Journal, her father
Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies
editAcquaintances
editFriends
edit- Helena Blavatsky
- Robert Browning
- Frederic Leighton
- Anne Proctor (mother of Adelaide Proctor)
- Marie, Countess of Caithness, Duchess of Medina Pomar
Organizations
edit- Rescue work in the East End
Timeline
edit1889, Violet Chambers moved to London.
1889 September, Violet Chambers joined the Golden Dawn, Isis-Urania Temple (Howe 52; Küntz 182).
1891, Violet Chambers and Clarens Tweedale married.
Questions and Notes
edit- Tweedale was known to be an excellent golfer; her father's 1862 book was about golf.
- Violet Tweedale wrote dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction, about spiritualism and not.
Bibliography
edit- Howe
- Küntz
- "Violet Tweedale." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Tweedale (accessed July 2020).