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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Violet Hunt with a tabby cat perched on her shoulder. She has short, curly hair, and is wearing a simple, dark shirt.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Friends, Associates Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Dawson counted Violet Hunt among her closest friends in London; she also socialized with Annie Besant , Flora Annie Steel , James McNeill Whistler , and Netta Syrett .
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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Textual Production Dorothy L. Sayers
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...
Friends, Associates John Ruskin
JR 's social and intellectual network was extensive: amongst his acquaintances were Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning , Elizabeth Gaskell , Violet Hunt , Jean Ingelow , Flora Shaw , Jane Welsh Carlyle and Thomas Carlyle
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...
Friends, Associates Dorothy Richardson
Throughout the late 1910s and 1920s, DR 's other friends and acquaintances included Violet Hunt , May Sinclair , Marianne Moore , C. A. Dawson-Scott , Catherine Carswell , and Sinclair Lewis .
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...
Textual Production Dorothy Richardson
In her correspondence Richardson addresses a great range of topics, including her own varied reading. She comments on women writers from Julian of Norwich through Jane Austen , Emily and Charlotte Brontë , George Eliot
Leisure and Society Amber Reeves
Soon after she came down from Cambridge the novelist Walter Lionel George met AR at a London party also attended by Ford Madox Hueffer , Wyndham Lewis , May Sinclair , and Violet Hunt ...
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.
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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...
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...
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 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.
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Max Beerbohm , Aubrey Beardsley , Henry Harland (editor of the...

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Texts

Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Zeppelin Nights. John Lane, 1916.