10 Facts About Violet Hunt

Isobel Violet Hunt was a British author and literary hostess.

Violet Hunt was a member of the Women Writers' Suffrage League.

Violet Hunt's father was the artist Alfred William Hunt, her mother the novelist and translator Margaret Raine Hunt.

Violet Hunt was an active feminist, and her novels The Maiden's Progress and A Hard Woman were works of the New Woman genre, while her short story collection Tales of the Uneasy is an example of supernatural fiction.

Violet Hunt was active in writers' organisations, founding the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and participated in the founding of International PEN in 1921.

Violet Hunt helped Ford Madox Hueffer establish The English Review in 1908.

Violet Hunt was fictionalised by him in two novels: as the scheming Florence Dowell in The Good Soldier and as the promiscuous Sylvia Tietjens in his tetralogy Parade's End.

Violet Hunt was the inspiration for the character Rose Waterfield in Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence and Norah Nesbit in Of Human Bondage.

Violet Hunt was the basis for Claire Temple, the central character of Norah Hoult's There Were No Windows.

Violet Hunt wrote two collections of supernatural stories, Tales of the Uneasy and More Tales of the Uneasy.