Margaret Raine Hunt
Margaret Hunt (1831–1912) was a British novelist[1] and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm.[2]
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Life
Born Margaret Raine,[3] daughter of James Raine,[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 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 addition to writing her novels she translated a definitive edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales.
Margaret's grave and those of her husband and daughter are in the Glades of Remembrance at Brookwood Cemetery.[citation needed]
Works
The following list is a selection of novels written by Hunt,[5]
- 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
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Works written by or about Margaret Raine Hunt at Wikisource- Works by Mrs. Alfred William Hunt at Project Gutenberg
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- ↑ 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
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