Call Number:

C1084

Repository:

Princeton University Library: Manuscripts Division

Extent:

• 1 box
• 0.2 linear feet

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Citations should be as follows: Violet Hunt Collection, Box #, Folder #, Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Date:

1890-1939 (inclusive)

Creator:

Princeton University. Library. Special Collections and Hunt, Violet, 1862-1942

Form:

Correspondence -- 20th century

Abstract:

Consists of selected correspondence of Violet Hunt, the British author and biographer.

Violet Hunt was a British writer, now best known for her supernatural fiction. Her father was the artist Alfred William Hunt. She was brought up among the Pre-Raphaelite group which included Dante Gabriele Rossetti. She lived with the married Ford Madox Ford (Hueffer) from about 1910 to 1918 as his mistress, and in 1925 she was legally restrained from describing herself as Ford's wife. Her works include The Wife of Rossetti: Her Life and Death (1932).

The collection consists of selected correspondence of Violet Hunt. Included are sixty-four letters by Hunt to a young Oliver Stonor, many of which are signed "Violet Hunt Hueffer"; four letters to Norah Hoult (Mrs. Oliver Stonor); one letter to a "Mrs. Ryan"; and a photocopy of a postcard to Siefrid Chesson. Other correspondents include W. Pett Ridge, Phillips Stephen, Katherine Cecil Thurston, Mary A. Ward, and Dolf Wyllarde.