Alfred William Hunt

VH 's father, Alfred William Hunt , was born in Liverpool on 15 November 1830. He associated with (though he was not a formal member of) the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . In 1932 VH called herself...

Another of Violet's aunts, Alfred 's sister Maria Hunt , was also well known in her time for her paintings of flowers and fruit.

After finishing high school, Hunt studied at South Kensington School of Art for three years, as her father intended her to be a painter. She was awarded a certificate for model drawing on 11 August...

Hunt inherited fears of poverty from her father . She once observed: I did . . . hate insolvency . . . . The idea of debt stands at my bedside like a spectre.

The libertine and radical Casanova', a singularly cosmopolitan Italian, wrote his memoirs in French, and his first name appeared on the translation in its French form. The translators were at first anonymous because VH 's...

VH 's central character here is Phoebe Elles, described by Barbara Belford as a British version of Flaubert 's Madame Bovary. Phoebe is unhappily married to (and soon leaves) her abusive husband Mortimer; looking...

JI had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson and was also close to Dora Greenwell . She admired and respected Robert Browning (though she...