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Violet Irwin
b. 1881
An early 20th-century novelist whose work moved between social fiction and adventure, she published stories with a strong sense of character and period atmosphere. Her books include the novels The Human Desire and Wits and the Woman, as well as the Arctic tale Kak, the Copper Eskimo, written with Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
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Kak, the Copper Eskimo
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Violet Irwin
About the author
Born in 1881, Violet Irwin was an author active in the early decades of the 20th century. Library and catalog records connect her with several books, including The Human Desire (1913) and Wits and the Woman (1919), both published by Small, Maynard.
She also collaborated with explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson on Kak, the Copper Eskimo (1924), a juvenile novel set in the Canadian Arctic. That range suggests a writer comfortable with both adult fiction and storytelling for younger readers.
Little biographical information was easy to confirm from reliable online sources, so the surviving picture is mostly literary rather than personal. Even so, her bibliography points to a versatile writer whose books reflect the interests and publishing world of her era.