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.
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
Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde
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.
RH
met Violet Hunt
, a novelist notorious for her New Woman life-style.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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politics
Radclyffe Hall
With the support of Violet Hunt
and May Sinclair
, RH
was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN
.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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Reception
Radclyffe Hall
Adam's Breed was extremely well reviewed and sold briskly in Britain and elsewhere.
Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray.
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In addition to the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse (for which the text was nominated by Hall's friend and colleague Violet Hunt
Friends, Associates
H. D.
After her move to England, Ezra Pound
introduced HD to his circle of friends, many of whom were important figures in the modernist movement. They included W. B. Yeats
, T. S. Eliot
,...
politics
Sarah Grand
In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand...
Author summary
John Galsworthy
JG
was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since...
FMF
collaborated on a number of literary works. With Joseph Conrad
he co-authored three books in 1901, 1903, and 1924: the second was a pirate novel called Romance, A Novel, which, however, did not...
Author summary
Ford Madox Ford
FMF
(who began publishing as Ford Madox Hueffer) was a significant figure in British and international modernism, and a prolific writer during the 1890s and the earlier part of the twentieth century. He produced fiction...
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...
Occupation
Ford Madox Ford
Violet Hunt
played a major role in its inception, acting as contributor, sub-editor, and reader.
