| 词条 | Violet Tweedale |
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Life and workViolet Tweedale was born in Edinburgh, the eldest daughter of Robert Chambers, editor of Chambers' Journal, and the granddaughter of Robert Chambers, the publisher and founder of W & R Chambers. In her teens she assisted her father in his work, and in 1889 moved to London where she had her first novel, And They Two, published, and became involved in humanitarian "rescue work" in the East End. In 1891, she married Clarens Tweedale.[2][3] In London, she moved in the best social circles, counting amongst her friends, poet Robert Browning, artist Frederic Leighton, Anne Proctor (mother of Adelaide Proctor) and many others. She also had influential contacts abroad including, Marie, Countess of Caithness, Duchess of Medina Pomar (Papal States), who was close to prominent Theosophist, Helena Blavatsky.[4] Claiming to be psychic from a young age,[5] she became involved in Spiritualism and Theosophy, and was a close associate of Helena Blavatsky.[4] She worked with the mediums Charles Williams and Cecil Husk (1847–1920), and was called as an expert witness when trance medium, Meurig Morris, sued the Daily Mail for libel in April 1932—although the case went against Morris, no fraud or dishonesty on the medium's part was proven.[6] Tweedale was also a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn. She was a prolific writer of short stories, published as anthologies, and novels, often with a romantic or supernatural theme. She wrote over 30 books on spiritual subjects, such as The Cosmic Christ (1930), and her own personal psychic experiences were documented in Ghosts I have Seen (1920).[2] Apart from her literary output, she was a gifted amateur artist, embroiderer, and an accomplished pianist; she was also a skilled orator who spoke up for workers' rights.[3][7] Tweedale was an avid golfer and was known as the best woman golfer in her region.[7] Bibliography (selected)
References1. ^Notice in [https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/34374/page/1293 The London Gazette, 20 February 1937] (accessed 16 August 2015). 2. ^1 2 Peter Zavon, Violet Tweedale, Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology, Thomson Gale, 2000 (Answers.com). 3. ^1 [//archive.org/stream/everywomansencyc02londuoft#page/1380/mode/1up Every woman's encyclopaedia, volume 2] p. 1380 (1910-12). 4. ^1 {{cite journal|url=http://theosophy.katinkahesselink.net/canadian/Vol-23-1-C-Theosophist.htm|title=H. P. Blavatsky as seen by Violet Tweedale|journal=The Canadian Theosophist|volume=XXIII|number=1|date=March 15, 1942}} 5. ^Tweedale, Ghosts I have seen, 1919, p. 9 ff. 6. ^{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U1qqguX24fAC&dq=isbn:0766128156&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjKuP3ZrLPYAhWEwYMKHSNQCdsQ6AEIJzAA|title=Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology|publisher=Kessinger Publishing|author=Lewis Spence|pages=612-3|isbn=0766128156}} 7. ^1 {{cite journal|url=http://www.northberwick.org.uk/campbell_links.html|title=In 1905, Dorothy Campbell played for the British team that beat a U.S. squad led by the Curtis sisters, six matches to one.|author=Dorothy Campbell Hurd|journal=Famous North Berwick Golfers}} External links
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