Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Violet Hunt
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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.
In London JFLW
associated with writers such as Marie Corelli
, Ouida
, and Violet Hunt
. Oscar
, an emerging celebrity, introduced his mother to the city's artistic circle.
Friends, Associates
May Kendall
MK
began publishing in 1885. During this decade she became friends with classical scholar and poet Andrew Lang
, who advanced her career as a writer.
Birch, Catherine Elizabeth. Evolutionary Feminism in Late-Victorian Women’s Poetry: Mathilde Blind, Constance Naden and May Kendall. University of Birmingham.
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Although she was never part of a literary...
Friends, Associates
Ada Leverson
AL
's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air:
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago.
LM
was a friend for much of her life of the novelist Emma Marshall
, who was also a friend of her mother. On Marshall's death in 1899 she wrote: The thought of her has...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucas Malet
He later became rector of Clovelly in Devon. The relationship turned out unhappily, and after some years the couple began living separately. Their marriage was childless (LM
apparently let it be known that...
Friends, Associates
Dora Marsden
West became a regular contributor to The Freewoman and a prominent member of the London branch of the Freewoman Discussion Circle
. She also played central roles in the revival and transformation of The Freewoman...
Textual Features
Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
Publishing
Alice Meynell
AM
began writing for the Pall Mall Gazette a regular Friday column entitled The Wares of Autolycus (previously written by Violet Hunt
); it was designed to appeal to female readers.
Tuell, Anne Kimball. Mrs. Meynell and her Literary Generation. Dutton.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
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Wealth and Poverty
Dorothy Richardson
DR
also accepted financial assistance from friends and other sources. Early in their friendship Bryher
established a trust fund that yielded Richardson £250 annually. She also committed £120, tax free, to Richardson for each year...
Timeline
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Texts
Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Zeppelin Nights. John Lane, 1916.