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Violet Hunt
1862–1942
A bold English writer who moved easily through the literary world of her time, she wrote sharp novels, ghostly tales, memoir, and biography. Her work is often linked with both the New Woman movement and early modern supernatural fiction.
4 Audiobooks
The Cat
by Violet Hunt
The Human Interest: A Study in Incompatibilities
by Violet Hunt
The Celebrity at Home
by Violet Hunt
Tales of the uneasy
by Violet Hunt
About the author
Born in Durham on September 28, 1862, Violet Hunt grew up in an artistic family: her father, Alfred William Hunt, was a painter, and her mother, Margaret Raine Hunt, was a novelist and translator. She first trained in art before turning seriously to writing, and she became known not only as an author but also as a lively literary hostess with close ties to major writers and artists of her era.
Hunt published across several forms, including novels, short stories, biography, and memoir. She is especially remembered for feminist-leaning fiction associated with the New Woman tradition, as well as for eerie, psychologically charged supernatural stories such as those collected in Tales of the Uneasy. She also contributed to important literary magazines of the 1890s, including The Yellow Book and The Savoy.
Her public life extended beyond literature alone. Hunt was involved in the Women Writers' Suffrage League and took part in the founding of International PEN, linking her career to wider movements for women's rights and literary community. She died in London on January 16, 1942.