Violet Edgerton
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| Portrayed by placeholder, former character | |
| Full Name | Violet Sophia Edgerton |
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| Associated Noble House(s) | {{{noblehouse}}} |
| Date of Birth | 10th December 1793 |
| Father | Sebastian Edgerton |
| Father's Rank | Baron Northumberland |
| Mother | Clarice Edgerton |
| Mother's Rank | Baroness Northumberland |
| Town Residence | ? |
| Year of Debut | 1811 |
| Dowry | ? |
Violet is the disgraced daughter of Baron Northumberland. She was sent away to the country after her affair with Thomas Sterne was discovered.
Violet is a former character, originally played by Cora.
Family
- Father: Sebastian Marcel Edgerton, Baron Northumberland; born in 1762; deceased.
- Mother: Clarice Janine Edgerton (nee Maywood), Lady Northumberland ; born in 1766; alive.
- Sister: Lady Gloria Harriet Heyworth, Viscountess Townshend; born in 1792; alive and married.
- Brother: The Hon. Martin George Edgerton; born in 1792; alive; unmarried.
Background
Although the family didn't come from Cambridgeshire, Violet first saw the light of day in the winter of 1793, in their family home in Peterborough. That is, she saw it in theory. In actuality she was born in a cold wintry night, on the 10th of December to be exact. Her mother, proud Lady Clarice Edgerton. Her father, moony Baron Sebastian Edgerton.
She was their third child. They already had twins Gloria and Martin. Whether anyone actually wanted Violet to come about remains unclear. After all, the family never seemed to be really well off and the most valuable possession they had together was the title.
She was first tended by her maternal grandmother, who lived there with them, then sent to a seminary until she was 16. That was when her father chose to go fight for king and country, leaving his family in a slightly unstable situation, socially and financially. His children were rather proud of their father, while his wife – who knew her clumsy husband all too well – was confronted for the first time in her life with a situation in which she didn’t know what to do.
While the Baron kept spending money on trying to advance himself in rank – he figured that would succeed where his prowess and bravery would fail him – his eldest daughter married Viscount Charles Heyworth of Townshend and, in her mother’s words, “finally did something for this bloody family.” She did two ‘somethings’ by marrying a rank higher and sparing the house of yet another mouth to feed, of course. But the Baroness wouldn’t give her child that much credit.
The next step was to find a bride for Martin. She hoped he could marry even better than his sister, but with each time she looked at her picky and at the same time rather ugly son, Clarice’s hopes died like unwatered flowers within her.
It was with the purpose of finding Martin a bride that what was left of the family traveled to London, but also to be in the grand city for the beginning of the regency reign. It proved to be a grand mistake, as the streets were greatly busy and the city itself loud, something the Baroness didn’t appreciate. However, with her husband off in some far away battle field – or rather, army canteen? – there was hardly anyone else to blame for that.
In the meanwhile, the Baron had finally managed to up in military rank when he was sent to battle and, to his great consternation and distress, had the rotten luck of dying. His body has yet to be found and his family is still unaware of the disappearance.
Of course, all of this does relatively little to affect Violet. She knows that as long as her mother or sister live, she should be well taken care of, or at least have decent living conditions.
She has reached the phase of self-education and reads almost anything that falls in her hand. With a talent for sowing, she has also taken up sketching and uses her spare time (of which there seems to be an abundance) capturing London and the natural surroundings in her neat little drawing book.