Violet Isabel Martineau (4 September 1865[1] – 9 January 1948)[2][3] was an English writer, editor, and biographer.
[3] The family knew Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson), whose home Violet visited.
of the Hants County Nursing Association,[7] and Secretary of the Ladies' Committee of the Brabazon Employment Society.
Around 1934, she wrote a biography of her maternal aunt, Jane Henrietta Adeane, an administrator and philanthropist.
[10][11][12] 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.