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Short name	Violet Rosa Markham
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First name	Violet Rosa
Birth name	Markham
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Alternative name	Mrs Violet Rosa Carruthers
Date of birth	1872
Date of death	1959
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Sex	Female
Place of birth	England
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Lived in	England
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Violet Rosa Markham was ...

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Memberships	The Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship , Women's National Anti-Suffrage League
Place(s) of Residence	England

Author of	South Africa, past and present; an account of its history, politics and native affairs, followed by some personal reminiscences of African travel during the crisis preceding the war (1900) The New Era in South Africa: With an Examination of the Chinese Labour Question (1904) Miss Violet Markham's Great Speech at the Albert Hall (1912) Paxton and the Bachelor Duke (1935)

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Riedi, Elizabeth L., Imperialist Women in Edwardian Britain: The Victoria League 1899-1914. (PhD Thesis submitted at University of St. Andrews, 1998)

Anti-Suffragette. Liberal and imperialist. Granddaughter of Joseph Paxton (designer of the Chrystal Palace) Mayor of Chesterfield in 1927. Married aged 43 to James Carruthers. Travelled to South Africa in 1899, further inspiring her imperialistic views. Afterwards wrote imperialistic propaganda. (Riedi, pp. 9-10)

Violet Rosa Markham (1872 - 1959)

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