Marie Secor

Later readers have paid Hunt's novels little critical interest and less acclaim. Biographer Barbara Belford suggested in 1990, for instance, that her characters are usually unsympathetic and forgettable; she wrote about the contemporary moment, but...

VH 's Times obituary included a comment on the emergence in this work of the bitterness and cynicism with which [Hunt's] style came to be associated.Marie Secor suggests that while the novel shares...

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...

VH modifies the gothic here to explore the psychological strains felt by sexually-frustrated women. Marie Secor finds a Charlotte Brontë -ish quality introduced into Hunt's writing with this work. Secor also notes that its...

Though categorized by critics as a novel, this text is primarily a collection of dialogues, some of which had appeared already in the Pall Mall Gazette and The Sketch. Hunt's heroine, Moderna, is...