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.
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
39, 107, 138, 141, 170, 284
Family and Intimate relationships
Christina Rossetti
Around 1857 CR
came to know the painter John Brett
, who may have proposed to her and been rejected, as Violet Hunt
claimed to have been told, though it is also possible that he...
Between 1928 and 1934, DLS
edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
16
politics
Evelyn Sharp
Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU
. She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt
) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early...
RMW
's leadership and personal aesthetics steered the periodical towards the arts, while still keeping intact established columns on domestic topics, such as gardening, needlework, cookery and fashion.
Hughes, Linda K. “A Female Aesthete at the Helm: Sylvia’s Journal and ’Graham R. Tomson’, 1893-1894”. Victorian Periodical Review, Vol.
29
, No. 2, pp. 173-92.
175
Pages teemed with poetry and fiction...
Publishing
Rosamund Marriott Watson
The book is dedicated with affection and esteem
Watson, Rosamund Marriott. The Art of the House. G. Bell and Sons.
prelims
to art critic and professor R. A. M. Stevenson
(cousin of the famous novelist). Earlier versions of the essays had appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette...
Occupation
Harriet Shaw Weaver
Writer and suffragist Iris Barry
, summarizing a general admiration for HSW
on the part of Soho writers (Pound, Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Violet Hunt
, and others), coined the phrase, the lion-hearted Miss Weaver who...