Hunt, Violet (F)

Surname: Hunt
Forename(s): Isabel Violet
b. 28 September 1862. d. 16 January 1942. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, short story writer, novelist, biographer, Pre-Raphaelite model, and salon hostess. Daughter of the artist Alfred William Hunt and the writer Margaret Raine Hunt. Attended Kensington Art School. Close friend of Oscar Wilde; lover of Somerset Maugham, H. G. Wells, and Ford Madox Ford. Her Kensington salon was attended by many well known literary figures. She founded the Women Writers’ Suffrage League, co-founded PEN with Catherine Amy (Dawson) Scott, and established (with Ford) the English Review. Author of a biography of Elizabeth Siddal. Biographical information: ODNB (AC)

Poems associated with this person

Total poems: 5
Poem title Date Periodical Roles id #
The Death of the Shameful Knight 1883-07 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18636
Absit Omen 1887-05-21 Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal Poet 12900
The Year of Grace 1888-01 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18816
Early One Morning 1889-07 Longman’s Magazine Poet 18884
Shooting Stars 1891-11 Atalanta Poet 2162