Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster.
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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | VH
's father, Alfred William Hunt
, was born in Liverpool on 15 November 1830. He associated with (though he was not a formal member of) the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
. In 1932 VH
called herself... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Violet Hunt | Another of Violet's aunts, Alfred
's sister Maria Hunt
, was also well known in her time for her paintings of flowers and fruit. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 21 |
Education | Violet Hunt | After finishing high school, Hunt studied at |
Wealth and Poverty | Violet Hunt | Hunt inherited fears of poverty from her father
. She once observed: I did . . . hate insolvency . . . . The idea of debt stands at my bedside like a spectre. Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright. 173-4 |
Textual Production | Violet Hunt | The libertine and radical Casanova', a singularly cosmopolitan Italian, wrote his memoirs in French, and his first name appeared on the translation in its French form. The translators were at first anonymous because VH
's... |
Textual Features | Violet Hunt | VH
's central character here is Phoebe Elles, described by Barbara Belford
as a British version of Flaubert
's Madame Bovary. Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster. 108 |
Friends, Associates | Jean Ingelow | JI
had a small but distinguished circle of intimate friends. By 1863 she was a friend of Alfred Tennyson
and was also close to Dora Greenwell
. She admired and respected Robert Browning
(though she... |
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