Margaret Hunt

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Standard Name: Hunt, Margaret,, 1831 - 1912
Used Form: Margaret Raine
Used Form: Mrs Alfred Hunt
Used Form: Averil Beaumont

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Education Violet Hunt
As young children, VH and her sisters were educated by a series of German, then French and Italian governesses.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
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Violet read broadly from her mother 's library, and was encouraged to write and sketch.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
40
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Hunt
VH 's mother, novelist Margaret Hunt , died at South Lodge. She had become eccentric and paranoid in old age, very difficult to live with.
qtd. in
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
195
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
under Margaret Hunt
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Hunt
VH 's mother was the writer Margaret (Raine) Hunt , born on 14 October 1831. Her childhood home, Crook Hall in County Durham, was visited by Dorothy and William Wordsworth , John Ruskin ...
Family and Intimate relationships Violet Hunt
Violet's aunt, Margaret 's elder sister, Annie Raine Ellis , was the first to edit and publish, in 1889, Frances (Fanny) Burney 's Early Journals.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
20
She also wrote introductions and annotations for two of Burney's novels.
Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. 18 July 2011, http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true.
Friends, Associates Dora Greenwell
Among DG 's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles , Margaret Hunt , and Sarah Tytler .
qtd. in
Marsh, Jan. Christina Rossetti: A Writer’s Life. Viking, 1995.
297-8, 429
Bett, Henry. Dora Greenwell. Epworth Press, 1950.
18-20, 22
Gray, Janet. “Dora Greenwell’s Commonplace Book”. Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol.
57
, No. 1, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1995, pp. 47-74.
50, 51
Gray, Janet. “The Sewing Contest: Christina Rossetti and the Other Women”. A/B: Auto/Biography Studies, Vol.
8
, No. 2, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 1993, pp. 233-57.
240
Hickok, Kathleen. Representations of Women: Nineteenth-Century British Women’s Poetry. Greenwood Press, 1984.
215
She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott
Intertextuality and Influence Violet Hunt
Acquainted with Andrew Lang through her mother 's social circle, VH shaped her own poetry under his influence. Partly because of Lang's connections, her romantic poem The Death of the Shameful Knight was published in...
Intertextuality and Influence Violet Hunt
During VH 's tenure at Black and White magazine, her mother, Margaret Hunt , already a successful novelist, edited her reviews.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
92
In 1909, Hunt and her close friend Agnes Farley took dictation from Hunt's...
Intertextuality and Influence Violet Hunt
VH was fascinated by the mysterious throughout her life. As a small girl, she loved to listen to her mother talk about the White Lady, a spirit haunting the kitchen of Margaret Hunt 's...
politics Violet Hunt
VH wrote that she would gladly have been jailed for her efforts along with other activists, but because she was the caregiver of her aging mother and young niece , Mrs Pankhurst and Christabel kindly...
Residence Violet Hunt
VH purchased from her mother the lease of South Lodge, their home since 1896 and a gathering place of both established and avant-garde artists in London.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
113, 170
Textual Features Violet Hunt
Hunt's memoirs concentrate predominantly on her creative associations with writers and painters, and her love-affair with writer Ford Madox Ford during the years between 1908 and 1915.
Hunt, Violet. I Have This to Say. Boni and Liveright, 1926.
3, 255
Hunt refers to Ford by his...
Textual Production Violet Hunt
In the last year of the life of her mother, Margaret Hunt , VH completed Margaret's novel The Governess, and published it with a preface by Ford Madox Ford .
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
187
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Travel Violet Hunt
They continued seeing each other until August 1887, when her mother sent her to Paris to avoid a scandal.
Belford, Barbara. Violet. Simon and Schuster, 1990.
54-5
Wealth and Poverty Violet Hunt
Her death prompted a legal battle over her estate. VH 's sisters, Venetia and Silvia , contested the will in an attempt to exclude her from her share of the £23,589 estate. They disapproved of...

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Texts

Hunt, Margaret, 1831 - 1912 et al. The Governess. Chatto and Windus, 1912.