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.
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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She was delighted with Thomas Hardy
, with whom she went cycling in Dorset in...
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...
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...
Violet Hunt
played a major role in its inception, acting as contributor, sub-editor, and reader.
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...
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Texts
Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Zeppelin Nights. John Lane, 1916.