Lifespan: 1862- 1942
Nationality: English
Genres: New Woman Genre, Supernatural Fiction
Types of Work: Novels, Short Stories, Biographies
Contemporaries:
Style: Stories focus on women's social progression
Bio: Isobel Violet Hunt was born in Durham, England on September 28, 1862. Her father, Alfred William Hunt, was an artist, and her mother, Margaret Raine, was a novelist and translator.
When Violet was 3, the family moved to London where she was raised by her parents in the Pre-Raphaelite group and came into contact with famous painters and authors, including Oscar Wilde, who was said to have proposed to her in 1879.
Violet wrote in a number of different literary forms, including the femininst, suffragette-driven "New Woman" genre and some supernatural fiction. Her best loved work was the novel White Rose of Weary Leaf.
Though she wrote numerous works, Violet was more well known for the literary salons she held, attended by notable authors such as Rebecca West, Ezra Pound, Joseph Conrad, and Henry James. Her relationship with notable authors resulted in her characterization in many of their novels, and theirs in her own.
Violet never married, but did carry on relationships with a number of men, including H.G. Wells and Ford Maddox Hueffer, with whom she lived for 8 years.
Violet died of pneumonia January 16, 1942 in Campden Hill, London. She was buried in the Glades of Remembrance at Brookwood Cemetery.
Novels:
The Way of Marriage (1896)
Unkist, Unkind! (1897)
The Human Interest - A Study in Incompatibilities (1899)
Affairs of the Heart (1900) stories
The Celebrity at Home (1904)
Sooner Or Later (1904)
The Cat (1905)
The Workaday Woman (1906)
White Rose Of Weary Leaf (1908)
The Wife of Altamont (1910)
The Life Story Of A Cat (1910)
Tales of the Uneasy (1911) stories
The Doll (1911)
The Governess (1912) with Margaret Raine Hunt
The Celebrity's Daughter (1913)
The Desirable Alien (1913) (with Ford Madox Hueffer)
The House of Many Mirrors (1915)
Zeppelin Nights: A London Entertainment (1916) with Ford Madox Hueffer
Their Lives (1916)
The Last Ditch (1918)
Their Hearts (1921)
Tiger Skin (1924) stories
More Tales of The Uneasy (1925) stories
The Wife of Rossetti - Her Life and Death (1932)