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Violet Isabel Martineau
Born(1865-09-04)September 4, 1865
Bengeo, Hertfordshire
DiedJanuary 9, 1948(1948-01-09) (aged 82)
Heckfield, Hampshire
Occupation(s)Writer, editor, biographer

Violet Isabel Martineau (4 September 1865 – 9 January 1948) was an English writer, editor, and biographer.

Personal life

Violet Isabel Martineau was the only daughter of the barrister and Justice of the peace John Martineau (1834–1910) of Walsham-le-Willows, Suffolk, and Louisa Amabel, née Adeane (d.1894). The family knew Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), whose home Violet visited.

She spent much of her life living in Hampshire, where she was Hon. Sec. of the Hants County Nursing Association, and Secretary of the Ladies' Committee of the Brabazon Employment Society.

Violet Martineau died on 9 January 1865, and was cremated on 14 January.

Writing

In 1921, Martineau published a biography of her father, titled John Martineau: The Pupil of Kingsley.

Around 1934, she wrote a biography of her maternal aunt, Jane Henrietta Adeane, an administrator and philanthropist. In 1936, Martineau published the recollections of her cousin, the activist Sophia Lonsdale, of which the National Review wrote that:

her notes and careful arrangement of extracts give us a living picture of a woman who would inspire anybody, and strangers who never knew her might well, in turning these pages, wish ardently that that privilege had been theirs.

Punch called it "admirably edited".

Bibliography

  • John Martineau, the pupil of Kingsley (1921)
  • Gertrude Martineau and Rothiemurchus (1925)
  • Recollections of Sophia Lonsdale (1936)

References

  1. "1939 Register". FindMyPast. 1939.
  2. "Legal Notices". The Times. 28 April 1948. p. 1.
  3. ^ Cohen Morton N. The Letters Of Lewis Carroll Volume I. London, Macmillan Limited.
  4. ^ "John Martineau". The Expository Times. May 1921. p. 349.
  5. ^ "RECOLLECTIONS OF SOPHIA LONSDALE". The National Review. September 1936. p. 406.
  6. Printed Copy of Will of John Martineau. 1910-01-31.
  7. "Nursing". Hampshire Independent. 30 November 1907. p. 4.
  8. "Brabazon Employment Society". Aldershot News. 24 March 1905. p. 7.
  9. "Berkshire Burial Index". 1948.
  10. "Jane Henrietta Adeane Papers". Archives Hub.
  11. Williams, Annie (2016). A detested occupation? : a history of domestic servants in North Wales 1800-1930. Internet Archive. Llanrwst , Wales : Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. ISBN 978-1-84527-556-3.
  12. "RCAHMW | Adeane, the O.B.E, and the hospital by the sea". rcahmw.gov.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
  13. "The Thoroughbred Sophia". Punch. 12 August 1936. p. 196.
  14. OpenLibrary.org. "Violet Isabel Martineau". Open Library. Retrieved 2025-01-03.
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