Social Victorians/People/Violet Tweedale

Also Known As

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  • 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

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  • Nationality:

Family

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  • Violet Chambers (1862 – 10 December 1936)
  • Clarens Tweedale ()

Relations

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  • Robert Chambers, editor of Chambers' Journal, her father

Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies

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Acquaintances

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Friends

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  • Helena Blavatsky
  • Robert Browning
  • Frederic Leighton
  • Anne Proctor (mother of Adelaide Proctor)
  • Marie, Countess of Caithness, Duchess of Medina Pomar

Organizations

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  • Rescue work in the East End

Timeline

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1889, 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

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  1. Tweedale was known to be an excellent golfer; her father's 1862 book was about golf.
  2. Violet Tweedale wrote dozens of books, both fiction and nonfiction, about spiritualism and not.

Bibliography

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