Violet Fane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Violet Fane

British writer

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1843

Place of Birth: Littlehampton, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Oct-1905

Profession: writer, poet, novelist, essayist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Violet Fane is the literary pseudonym of Lady Mary Montgomerie Currie (née Lamb, 24 February 1843 – 13 October 1905).
A poet, a writer, and later an ambassadress, who was active in the British literary scene from 1872 until her death in 1905, Fane was a literary celebrity associated with Aestheticism, Medievalism, whose verses were occasionally set to music by famous composers such as Paolo Tosti.
As a well-known figure in London society, Fane's coterie included famous literary personas such as Robert Browning, Algernon Swinburne, A.
W.
Kinglake, Alfred Austin, James McNeil Whistler, Lillie Langtry, and Oscar Wilde, who praised the oracular bent of Fane's opinions on 'the relation of art to nature' by saying that she ‘live[d] between Parnassus and Piccadilly’.