Social Victorians/People/Violet Tweedale
Also Known As
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- Nationality:
Family
[edit | edit source]- Violet Chambers (1862 – 10 December 1936)
- Clarens Tweedale ()
Relations
[edit | edit source]- Robert Chambers, editor of Chambers' Journal, her father
Acquaintances, Friends and Enemies
[edit | edit source]Acquaintances
[edit | edit source]Friends
[edit | edit source]- Helena Blavatsky
- Robert Browning
- Frederic Leighton
- Anne Proctor (mother of Adelaide Proctor)
- Marie, Countess of Caithness, Duchess of Medina Pomar
Organizations
[edit | edit source]- Rescue work in the East End
Timeline
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- 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 | edit source]- Howe
- Küntz
- "Violet Tweedale." Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Tweedale (accessed July 2020).