| Short name |
Violet Georgina Milner |
| VIAF |
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| First name |
Violet Georgina |
| Maiden name |
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| Married name |
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| Alternative name |
Viscountess Milner
,
Violet Maxse
,
Violet Cecil
,
Lady Violet Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil
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| Date of birth |
1872 |
| Date of death |
1958 |
| Flourishing |
- |
| Sex |
Female |
| Place of birth |
- |
| Place of death |
England |
| Lived in |
England
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| Place of residence notes |
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| Related to |
-
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| Bibliography |
- Hugh Cecil, ‘Milner , Violet Georgina, Viscountess Milner (1872–1958)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006
- Riedi, Elizabeth L., Imperialist Women in Edwardian Britain: The Victoria League 1899-1914. (PhD Thesis submitted at University of St. Andrews, 1998) |
| Provisional Notes |
Editor of the right-wing, imperialist National Review (after her brother Leopold Maxse died in 1932). Had already contributed to the review <1932.
Married to Lord Edward Cecil, who was often abroad.
Founding president of the Victoria League.
According to Oxford DNB:
- Atheist (which contributed to Edward and Violet drifting apart)
- Accompanied husband Cecil in 1899 to South Africa (where he was chief staff officer to Baden-Powell)
- 18-year old son George killed in battle in France (1914); Edward stayed abroad
- Edward died from tuberculosis in 1918.
- Remarried, to Alfred Milner (1921), who died in 1925 from the bite of a tsetse fly after returning from South Africa.
According to Riedi (p. 11):
- Parents separated. Through her mother, met Oscar Wilde, Whistler, Sickert in London (though she lived mostly with her father, via whom she met Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, Clemenceau)
- Spent two years in Paris, studying art
Connections with Violet Markham. |