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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.
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| politics | May Sinclair | MS
became a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League
some time after it was founded in June 1908. Boll, Theophilus E. M. Miss May Sinclair: Novelist: A Biographical and Critical Introduction. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973. 96 |
| politics | Evelyn Sharp | 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... |
| politics | Sarah Grand | In an interview in 1896, SG
made clear her belief in the need for female suffrage: We shall do no good until we get the Franchise, for however well-intentioned men may be, they cannot understand... |
| politics | Radclyffe Hall | With the support of Violet Hunt
and May Sinclair
, RH
was elected a member of the writers' organisation PEN
. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 173 |
| Author summary | John Galsworthy | JG
was a novelist and dramatist who began publishing just before the end of the nineteenth century. The series of novels for which he is now best known, The Forsyte Saga, is historical, since... |
| Author summary | Ford Madox Ford | FMF
(who began publishing as Ford Madox Hueffer) was a significant figure in British and international modernism, and a prolific writer during the 1890s and the earlier part of the twentieth century. He produced fiction... |
| Publishing | Alice Meynell | 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, 1970. 36 |
| Publishing | Rosamund Marriott Watson | The book is dedicated with affection and esteem Watson, Rosamund Marriott. The Art of the House. G. Bell and Sons, 1897. prelims |
| Reception | Dorothy Whipple | A reader at Curtis Brown
praised DW
's very shrewd and natural gift of depicting her middle-class characters, while Lord Gorell
at John Murray
wrote: Much her best work and the former was good. qtd. in Whipple, Dorothy. Random Commentary. Michael Joseph, 1966. 23 |
| Reception | Radclyffe Hall | Adam's Breed was extremely well reviewed and sold briskly in Britain and elsewhere. Cline, Sally. Radclyffe Hall: A Woman Called John. John Murray, 1997. 211-12 |
| Textual Features | Rebecca West | Between March 1915 and August 1917, West wrote reviews for the Daily News, under the editorship of A. G. Gardiner
. She often reviewed books on the subject of women; these allowed her to... |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | Rosamund Marriott Watson | RMW
's leadership and personal aesthetics steered the periodical towards the arts, while still keeping intact established columns on domestic topics, such as gardening, needlework, cookery and fashion. Hughes, Linda K. “A Female Aesthete at the Helm: Sylvia’s Journal and ’Graham R. Tomson’, 1893-1894”. Victorian Periodical Review, Vol. 29 , No. 2, 1 June 1996– 2024, pp. 173-92. 175 |
| Textual Production | Ford Madox Ford | FMF
collaborated on a number of literary works. With Joseph Conrad
he co-authored three books in 1901, 1903, and 1924: the second was a pirate novel called Romance, A Novel, which, however, did not... |
| 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... |
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