Milner, Violet Georgina (1872 - 1958)
| Short name | Milner, Violet Georgina |
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| VIAF | http://viaf.org/viaf/67570378 |
| First name | Violet Georgina |
| Birth name | Maxse |
| Married name | , |
| Alternative name | Viscountess Milner , Violet Maxse , Violet Cecil , Lady Violet Georgina Gascoyne-Cecil |
| Date of birth | 1872 |
| Date of death | 1958 |
| Flourishing | - |
| Sex | Female |
| Place of birth | London |
| Place of death | Great Wigsell (Sussex) [NOT IN CERL] |
| Lived in | England |
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| Religion / ideology | Atheist |
| Education | Educated at home |
| Aristocratic title | Viscountess Milner |
| Professional or ecclesiastical title | - |
| Gascoyne-Cecil, Edward Herbert | 1894-1918 | Married |
| Milner, Alfred | 1921-None | Married |
Milner, Violet Georgina was ...
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| Memberships | The Victoria League for Commonwealth Friendship |
| Place(s) of Residence | England |
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Receptions of Milner, Violet Georgina, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
| Title | Author | Date | Type |
- 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)
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.