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 Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
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...
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...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Fay Weldon	During her marriage she and Edgar entertained the literary and avant-garde world: she later regaled her grand-daughter with irreverent stories of Joseph Conrad , Jean Rhys (Such a louche young woman), Weldon, Fay. Auto da Fay. Flamingo. 102 Ford Madox Ford
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
Family and Intimate relationships	H. G. Wells	Wells wrote about characters who defied conventional morality. In his own life, he married twice, and had a busy extramarital sexual career. He writes about this himself in the second volume of his autobiography (published...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships	Rebecca West	From the beginning, the liaison was fraught with difficulties. When they met, Wells was over forty and still married to his second wife, with whom he had come to an agreement that he would be...
Family and Intimate relationships	Nina Hamnett	NH 's mother was born Mary Elizabeth De Blois Archdeacon in 1863; she attended Notting Hill High School (an early London public school for girls) with the future writer Violet Hunt . Mary Elizabeth Archdeacon...
Friends, Associates	Lucas Malet	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...
Friends, Associates	Constance Smedley	In Birmingham CS had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan , through whom she also met Flora Klickmann . Edgar Pemberton brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham , and Mary Moore
Friends, Associates	Annie S. Swan	She also mentions a great many literary names. Among women writers whom she calls the stars of her generation were Mary Augusta Ward , Lucas Malet , Lucy Clifford , Sarah Grand , Violet Hunt
Friends, Associates	Una Troubridge	The couple's circle of friends included many notable women: painter Romaine Brooks , writers Natalie Barney , Violet Hunt , and Iris Tree (daughter of actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree), the Duchess Clermont Tonnerre ...
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...
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...

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.