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.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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.
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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.
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That year she also joined the Women's Freedom League , collected money in the streets...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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
to art critic and professor R. A. M. Stevenson (cousin of the famous novelist). Earlier versions of the essays had appeared in the Pall Mall Gazette...
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.
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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.
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In addition to the Prix Femina Vie Heureuse (for which the text was nominated by Hall's friend and colleague Violet Hunt
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.
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, No. 2, 1 June 1996– 2024, pp. 173-92.
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Pages teemed with poetry and fiction...
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...
Textual Production Hélène Barcynska
This was one of the six-shilling novels published by Stanley Paul , a series including work by such writers as Rhoda Broughton , Dorothea Gerard , and Violet Hunt . (The same firm issued two-shilling...

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