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Violet Hunt
1862–1942
A bold voice in early feminist fiction, she also wrote memorable supernatural tales and helped shape literary life in London. Her work moves between sharp social observation, wit, and an eerie sense of the uncanny.
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 28 September 1862, Violet Hunt grew up in an artistic household: her father, Alfred William Hunt, was a painter, and her mother, Margaret Raine Hunt, was a novelist and translator. She became a British author and literary hostess whose career stretched across novels, short stories, memoir, and biography.
Hunt is especially associated with feminist fiction of the New Woman era, and she also became well known for supernatural stories, including those collected in Tales of the Uneasy. Beyond her writing, she was active in literary and political circles, joining the Women Writers' Suffrage League and later taking part in the founding of International PEN.
She died in London on 16 January 1942. Today, she is remembered not only for her fiction, but also for the lively role she played in connecting writers, ideas, and debates in late Victorian and early 20th-century Britain.