Margaret Raine Hunt Explained

Margaret Hunt (née Raine; 1831–1912) was a British novelist^[1] and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm.^[2]

Life

Margaret Raine,^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: John Sutherland. John Sutherland (author). The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. Hunt, ... [Margaret]. 314. 1989. 1990. 9780804718424.
2. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/009994834 Grimm's household tales
3. Book: Cushing, William. Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. 1888. T.Y. Crowell & Company. 239–.
4. Hunt, Margaret. Who's Who. 1907. 59. 896.
5. Book: The Cambridge bibliography of English literature; Volumes 1800–1900. Joanne Shattock. Cambridge University Press. 2000. 4. 1581–1582. The late Nineteenth Century Novel. 978-0-521-39100-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=aKN-8YnggEUC&pg=PA2280.
6. Book: Room, Adrian. Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins By . McFarland. 2010. 5. 53. 978-0-7864-4373-4.
7. Hunt, Alfred William.
8. http://www.oxforddnb.com/index/101055789/Margaret-Hunt Hunt [née Raine], Margaret (1831–1912), novelist] Oxford Biography Index Number 101055789 Primary authority: Oxford DNB was born in Durham, England, 1831.^[3] She was the daughter of James Raine and sister to James Raine the younger,^[4] she also wrote under the pseudonym Averil Beaumont.^{[5] [6]} Her husband was the artist Alfred William Hunt. Her older daughter was the novelist Violet Hunt;^[7] 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. 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

   The following list is a selection of novels written by Hunt,

   • 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.

   External links

   • • • • • • Golden Gale (most of her novels)