Violet Tweedale

Violet Tweedale, née Chambers (1862 – 10 December 1936), was a Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist.

Violet Chambers 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.

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.

Claiming to be psychic from a young age, she became involved in Spiritualism and Theosophy, and was a close associate of Helena Blavatsky. 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. Tweedale was also a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn.

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