Margaret Hunt

As young children, VH and her sisters were educated by a series of German, then French and Italian governesses. Violet read broadly from her mother 's library, and was encouraged to write and sketch.

VH 's mother, novelist Margaret Hunt , died at South Lodge. She had become eccentric and paranoid in old age, very difficult to live with.

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 ...

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. She also wrote introductions and annotations for two of Burney's novels.

Among DG 's other writer friends were Elizabeth Charles , Margaret Hunt , and Sarah Tytler . She was also acquainted with Longfellow , William Bell Scott

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...

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...

During VH 's tenure at Black and White magazine, her mother, Margaret Hunt , already a successful novelist, edited her reviews. In 1909, Hunt and her close friend Agnes Farley took dictation from Hunt's...

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...

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.

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 refers to Ford by his...

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 .

They continued seeing each other until August 1887, when her mother sent her to Paris to avoid a scandal.

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...