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.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Violet Hunt with a tabby cat perched on her shoulder. She has short, curly hair, and is wearing a simple, dark shirt.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Friends, Associates Catharine Amy Dawson Scott
Dawson counted Violet Hunt among her closest friends in London; she also socialized with Annie Besant , Flora Annie Steel , James McNeill Whistler , and Netta Syrett .
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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Friends, Associates Mary Elizabeth Braddon
The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
Friends, Associates May Kendall
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.
Friends, Associates Ivy Compton-Burnett
Friendship did not blossom with Woolf, whom years later ICB described to Nathalie Sarraute as a terrible snob.
Spurling, Hilary. Secrets of a Woman’s Heart. Hodder and Stoughton.
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This was the period when Compton-Burnett was lionised after the publication of Brothers and Sisters...
Friends, Associates Ada Leverson
AL 's circle of friends comprised writers and artists who were to lend the . . . decade its peculiarly distinctive air:
Speedie, Julie. Wonderful Sphinx: The Biography of Ada Leverson. Virago.
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Max Beerbohm , Aubrey Beardsley , Henry Harland (editor of the...
Friends, Associates May Sinclair
On her visit to the USA, MS became a warm friend of Annie Fields and Sarah Orne Jewett .
Raitt, Suzanne. May Sinclair: A Modern Victorian. Clarendon Press.
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She was delighted with Thomas Hardy , with whom she went cycling in Dorset in...
Friends, Associates Lucas Malet
LM was a friend for much of her life of the novelist Emma Marshall , who was also a friend of her mother. On Marshall's death in 1899 she wrote: The thought of her has...
Friends, Associates Constance Smedley
In Birmingham CS had become friendly with Coulson Kernahan , through whom she also met Flora Klickmann . Edgar Pemberton brought her acquainted with theatrical figures she deeply admired: Sir Charles Wyndham , and Mary Moore
Friends, Associates Annie S. Swan
She also mentions a great many literary names. Among women writers whom she calls the stars of her generation were Mary Augusta Ward , Lucas Malet , Lucy Clifford , Sarah Grand , Violet Hunt
Friends, Associates Dora Marsden
West became a regular contributor to The Freewoman and a prominent member of the London branch of the Freewoman Discussion Circle . She also played central roles in the revival and transformation of The Freewoman...
Friends, Associates Una Troubridge
The couple's circle of friends included many notable women: painter Romaine Brooks , writers Natalie Barney , Violet Hunt , and Iris Tree (daughter of actor Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree), the Duchess Clermont Tonnerre ...
Leisure and Society Amber Reeves
Soon after she came down from Cambridge the novelist Walter Lionel George met AR at a London party also attended by Ford Madox Hueffer , Wyndham Lewis , May Sinclair , and Violet Hunt ...
Occupation Harriet Shaw Weaver
Writer and suffragist Iris Barry , summarizing a general admiration for HSW on the part of Soho writers (Pound, Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, Violet Hunt , and others), coined the phrase, the lion-hearted Miss Weaver who...
Occupation Ford Madox Ford
Violet Hunt played a major role in its inception, acting as contributor, sub-editor, and reader.

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Texts

Hunt, Violet, and Ford Madox Ford. Zeppelin Nights. John Lane, 1916.