Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
Later, from 1910 to 1913, she was secretary of the Kensington branch of the WSPU
. She was present (as reported by Violet Hunt
) at the suffrage meeting in the Albert Hall in early...
Watts, Marjorie, and Frances King. Mrs. Sappho. Duckworth.
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Textual Production
Dorothy L. Sayers
Between 1928 and 1934, DLS
edited three volumes under the series title Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Her introductions to these collections offered a scholarly history of the genre of detective...
Around 1857 CR
came to know the painter John Brett
, who may have proposed to her and been rejected, as Violet Hunt
claimed to have been told, though it is also possible that he...
Richardson, Dorothy. Windows on Modernism: Selected Letters of Dorothy Richardson. Editor Fromm, Gloria G., University of Georgia Press.
39, 107, 138, 141, 170, 284
Wealth and Poverty
Dorothy Richardson
DR
also accepted financial assistance from friends and other sources. Early in their friendship Bryher
established a trust fund that yielded Richardson £250 annually. She also committed £120, tax free, to Richardson for each year...
AM
began writing for the Pall Mall Gazette a regular Friday column entitled The Wares of Autolycus (previously written by Violet Hunt
); it was designed to appeal to female readers.
Tuell, Anne Kimball. Mrs. Meynell and her Literary Generation. Dutton.
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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...
Textual Features
Dora Marsden
A marked difference separating The New Freewoman from its predecessor was its increased literary content, at first secured mainly by Rebecca West
. West recruited Ezra Pound
to The New Freewoman after meeting him at...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Lucas Malet
He later became rector of Clovelly in Devon. The relationship turned out unhappily, and after some years the couple began living separately. Their marriage was childless (LM
apparently let it be known that...
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.