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Enid Leigh Hunt
Best known today for the early 20th-century novel Hazelhurst, this British writer published under the name Enid Leigh Hunt and was also identified in print as Mrs. Derek Edward Thornton. Her work leans toward warm, character-focused storytelling with a strong family thread.
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Hazelhurst
by Enid Leigh Hunt
About the author
Enid Leigh Hunt is a little-known early 20th-century author whose novel Hazelhurst remains the work most easily traced today. The Project Gutenberg edition identifies her as Enid Leigh Hunt (Mrs. Derek Edward Thornton) and notes that she was also the author of The Advent of Arthur.
From the surviving book records, she appears to have written fiction with a domestic and youthful focus. Hazelhurst, published in London in 1908, follows the Le Mesurier family and centers on Hazel, the youngest child, as the family faces loss and financial strain.
Reliable biographical details about her life are scarce in the sources currently available, so much of her personal story remains unclear. Even so, the continued availability of Hazelhurst through major public-domain archives has helped keep her name in circulation for modern readers interested in overlooked writers of the period.