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

Life

Margaret Raine, was born in Durham, England, 1831. She was the daughter of James Raine and sister to James Raine the younger, she also wrote under the pseudonym Averil Beaumont. Her husband was the artist Alfred William Hunt. Her older daughter was the novelist Violet Hunt; 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.

References

1. John Sutherland (1990) . "Hunt, ... ". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. p. 314. ISBN 9780804718424.
2. Grimm's household tales, trans. & ed. by Margaret Hunt with an intro. by Andrew Lang, hathitrust.org
3. Hunt , Margaret (1831–1912), novelist Oxford Biography Index Number 101055789 Primary authority: Oxford DNB
4. ^ Cushing, William (1888). Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. T.Y. Crowell & Company. pp. 239–.
5. "Hunt, Margaret". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 896.
6. ^ 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.
7. 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.
8. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hunt, Alfred William" . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links

• 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 the 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)

• British women novelists
• 1831 births
• 1912 deaths
• German–English translators
• 19th-century British translators
• 19th-century British novelists
• 20th-century British novelists
• 20th-century British women writers
• Burials at Brookwood Cemetery
• 20th-century British translators
• 19th-century British women writers
• Pseudonymous women writers
• Writers from Durham, England
• 19th-century pseudonymous writers
• 20th-century pseudonymous writers