Background
Edith was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the daughter of William Starr Miller and Edith Caroline Warren. Her father was a New York industrialist and real estate operator.
Edith was born in Newport, Rhode Island, the daughter of William Starr Miller and Edith Caroline Warren. Her father was a New York industrialist and real estate operator.
The interiors of the house were designed by Edith herself. They had three daughters:
Audrey Elizabeth Paget (May 4, 1922 – 1991) an aviatrix
Enid Louise Paget (born July 14, 1923)
Cicilie Carol Paget (born April 18, 1928)
The Pagets were allegedly pro-Fascist, and Edith in particular was friendly with Brigadier General Robert Byron Drury Blakeney (1872-1952), second president of the British Fascisti from 1924-1926, and later active in the Imperial Fascist League, the Britons, the British Union of Fascists, and the Nordic League. Edith"s observations were outlined in her posthumously published Occult Theocrasy, and added to the discussion of the secret societies and their conspiracies.
Her information was drawn from existing sources, including the works of Doctor Karl Hacks and Léo Taxil ( pseudonym of Marie-Joseph Gabriel-Antoine Jogand-Pages ) ( 1854-1907 ), Taxil"s supporter Abel Clarin de la Rive ( 1855-1914 ), Samuel Paul Rosen ( 1840-1907 ), theosophist Alice Bailey ( 1880-1949 ), Nesta Helen Webster ( 1876-1960 ), and esotericist Christina M. Stoddard, who wrote under the pseudonym "Inquire Within".
The Pagets later separated, and Edith sued in New York for legal separation on January 8, 1932, citing cruelty. She died in Paris a year later, on January 16, 1933.