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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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. 31 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 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 |
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 |
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 |
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/. under Margaret Hunt |
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 |
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