Violet Hunt

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Isobel Violet Hunt (born September 28, 1862 in Durham , † January 16, 1942 ) was a British author .

Her father was the artist Alfred William Hunt , her mother the writer Margaret Raine Hunt (1831-1912). Her younger sister Venetia married the designer William Arthur Smith Benson in 1886 . Born in Durham, her family moved to London in 1865 . There she came into contact with pre-Raphaelite groups , including John Ruskin and William Morris . She also became acquainted with Oscar Wilde in Dublin in 1879 .

Hunt wrote many novels, including a biography of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal , which is considered free and prejudiced against her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Hunt lived with the married writer Ford Madox Ford , as well as with HG Wells and William Somerset Maugham , who portrayed her as Nora Nesbit in his novel Of Human Bondage .

Publications

  • Their Hearts , Leipzig: Tauchnitz-Verlag, 1929
  • Tales of the uneasy , Leipzig: Tauchnitz-Verlag, 1911
  • The Wife of Altamont , Leipzig: Tauchnitz-Verlag, 1910
  • The human interest: A study in incompatibilities , Leipzig: Tauchnitz-Verlag, 1900
  • White Rose of weary leaf , 2 volumes, Leipzig: Tauchnitz-Verlag

Web links

Wikisource: Violet Hunt  - Sources and full texts