Margaret Hunt (née Raine; 1831–1912) was a British novelist[1] and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm.[2]
Life edit
Margaret Raine,[3] was born in Durham, England, 1831.[4] She was the daughter of James Raine and sister to James Raine the younger,[5] she also wrote under the pseudonym Averil Beaumont.[6][7] Her husband was the artist Alfred William Hunt. Her older daughter was the novelist Violet Hunt;[8] her younger daughter Venetia Benson, née Hunt (1864–1946) married the designer William Arthur Smith Benson (1854–1924).
In the 1880s, a family friendship with Oscar Wilde was developed through her literary connections. In 1886, she was living in London.[4] In addition to writing her novels, she translated a definitive edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Hunt's grave and those of her husband and daughter are in Plot 56 at Brookwood Cemetery.
Works edit
The following list is a selection of novels written by Hunt,[6]
- Under Seal of Confession (1874) (as Averil Beaumont)
- The Leaden Casket (1880)
- Thornicroft's Model (1881) (as Averil Beaumont)
- The Governess (1912) with Violet Hunt, preface by Ford Madox Brown.
In 1884 she produced the two volume Grimm's Household Tales (Bell & Sons, Covent Garden), with an introduction by Andrew Lang.
References edit
- ^ John Sutherland (1990) [1989]. "Hunt, ... [Margaret]". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. p. 314. ISBN 9780804718424.
- ^ Grimm's household tales, trans. & ed. by Margaret Hunt with an intro. by Andrew Lang, hathitrust.org
- ^ Hunt [née Raine], Margaret (1831–1912), novelist Oxford Biography Index Number 101055789 Primary authority: Oxford DNB
- ^ a b Cushing, William (1888). Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. T.Y. Crowell & Company. pp. 239–.
- ^ "Hunt, Margaret". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 896.
- ^ a b Joanne Shattock, ed. (2000). "The late Nineteenth Century Novel". The Cambridge bibliography of English literature; Volumes 1800–1900. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1581–1582. ISBN 978-0-521-39100-9.
- ^ Room, Adrian (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins By (5 ed.). McFarland. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-7864-4373-4.
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links edit
Works by or about Margaret Raine Hunt at Wikisource- Works by Mrs. Alfred William Hunt at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Margaret Raine Hunt at Internet Archive
- Works by Margaret Raine Hunt at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Mrs. Alfred William Hunt at Library of Congress, with 19 library catalogue records
- Golden Gale (most of her novels)
