Violet Hunt

28 September 1862 - 16 January 1942

Standard Name: Hunt, Violet

Birth Name: Isabel Violet Hunt

Pseudonym: Violet Herris

Known mainly as a popular novelist, VH also published book and theatre reviews, translations, short stories, non-fiction, memoirs, and a biography. Her publishing career covers the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Though often initially praised, her works began to fall out of print and critical favour during her lifetime. Readers are returning to her writing, however: critics such as Marie Secor , Kathryn Ledbetter , and Donald Mason have begun to focus particular attention on her exploration of women's personal and creative struggles in familial, artistic, and social contexts.

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Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Textual Production	Hélène Barcynska	This was one of the six-shilling novels published by Stanley Paul , a series including work by such writers as Rhoda Broughton , Dorothea Gerard , and Violet Hunt . (The same firm issued two-shilling...
Friends, Associates	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
Friends, Associates	Ivy Compton-Burnett	Friendship did not blossom with Woolf, whom years later ICB described to Nathalie Sarraute as a terrible snob. Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton. 40 This was the period when Compton-Burnett was lionised after the publication of Brothers and Sisters...
Education	Constance, Countess Markievicz	Julian's was then one of the largest and most rigorous private art schools in Paris. He allowed his female and male students to compete together for monthly prizes, but kept studios segregated by gender and...
Textual Production	Ella Hepworth Dixon	She was offered this position by F. V. White on the strength of her novel The Story of a Modern Woman. As an editor she was following in the footsteps of her celebrated father
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Ella Hepworth Dixon	In a chapter devoted to Some Women Writers she praises, among others, Sheila Kaye-Smith , Margaret Kennedy (particularly for The Constant Nymph), Elizabeth von Arnim , and Violet Hunt . Authors who receive whole...
Textual Production	Ford Madox Ford	FMF collaborated on a number of literary works. With Joseph Conrad he co-authored three books in 1901, 1903, and 1924: the second was a pirate novel called Romance, A Novel, which, however, did not...
Author summary	Ford Madox Ford	FMF (who began publishing as Ford Madox Hueffer) was a significant figure in British and international modernism, and a prolific writer during the 1890s and the earlier part of the twentieth century. He produced fiction...
Family and Intimate relationships	Ford Madox Ford	Ford Madox Hueffer (later Ford) first met writer Violet Hunt in March 1907. They became lovers a couple of years later, after Ford threatened to commit suicide. They lived together off and on from 1909...
Occupation	Ford Madox Ford	Violet Hunt played a major role in its inception, acting as contributor, sub-editor, and reader.
Friends, Associates	Julia Frankau	Literary figures regularly seen at JF 's afternoon salons included George Moore , Max Beerbohm , Arnold Bennett , Somerset Maugham , Sir William Nicholson , and Sir Henry Irving . It was at one...
Author summary	John Galsworthy	JG was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since...
politics	Sarah Grand	In an interview in 1896, SG made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
Friends, Associates	H. D.	After her move to England, Ezra Pound introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats , T. S. Eliot ,...
Family and Intimate relationships	Radclyffe Hall	RH met Violet Hunt , a novelist notorious for her New Woman life-style. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray. 53

Timeline

June 1908

The Women Writers' Suffrage League was established by Cicely Hamilton and Bessie Hatton .

Early December 1908

A meeting of suffragists at the Albert Hall was marred by violence from both sides: a woman struck a steward in the face with a whip, and women were roughly handled.

5 October 1921

The P.E.N. Club (later PEN International ), a world association of authors, was founded in London by writers C. A. Dawson Scott and Violet Hunt .

Texts

Hunt, Violet. A Hard Woman. Chapman and Hall, 1895.

Hunt, Violet. Affairs of the Heart. S. T. Freemantle, 1900.

Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright, 1926.

Hunt, Violet. More Tales of the Uneasy. W. Heinemann, 1925.

Hunt, Violet. Sooner or Later. Chapman and Hall, 1904.

Hunt, Violet. Tales of the Uneasy. W. Heinemann, 1911.

Hunt, Violet. The Cat. A. and C. Black, 1905.

Hunt, Violet. The Celebrity at Home. Chapman and Hall, 1904.

Hunt, Violet. The Celebrity’s Daughter. Stanley Paul and Company Limited, 1913.

Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. The Desirable Alien. Chatto and Windus, 1913.

Hunt, Violet. The Doll. Stanley Paul and Company Limited, 1911.

Hunt, Violet. The Flurried Years. Hurst and Blackett, 1926.

Hunt, Margaret et al. The Governess. Chatto and Windus, 1912.

Hunt, Violet. The House of Many Mirrors. Stanley Paul and Company Limited, 1914.

Hunt, Violet. The Human Interest. Methuen, 1899.

Hunt, Violet. The Last Ditch. Stanley Paul and Company Limited, 1918.

Hunt, Violet. The Maiden’s Progress. Osgood, McIlvaine, 1894.

Hunt, Violet. The Way of Marriage. Chapman and Hall, 1896.

Hunt, Violet. The Wife of Altamont. W. Heinemann, 1910.

Hunt, Violet. The Wife of Rossetti. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1932.

Hunt, Violet. The Workaday Woman. T. Werner Laurie, 1906.

Hunt, Violet. Their Hearts. Stanley Paul and Company Limited, 1921.

Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Their Lives. Stanley Paul and Company Limited, 1916.

Hunt, Violet. Unkist, Unkind!. Chapman and Hall, 1897.

Hunt, Violet. White Rose of Weary Leaf. W. Heinemann, 1908.