Margaret Raine Hunt

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

Life

Born Margaret Raine,^[1] she also wrote under the pseudonym Averil Beaumont.^[2][3] Her husband was the artist Alfred William Hunt. Her older daughter was the novelist Violet Hunt;^[4] 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,^[2]

• 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 and sons, Convent Garden), with an introduction by Andrew Lang.

References

1. ^ Hunt [née Raine], Margaret (1831–1912), novelist Oxford Biography Index Number 101055789 Primary authority: Oxford DNB
2. ^ ^{a b} Joanne Shattock, ed (2000). "The late Nineteenth Century Novel". The Cambridge bibliography of English literature; Volumes 1800–1900. 4. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1581–1582. ISBN 9780521391009. http://books.google.com/books?id=aKN-8YnggEUC&lpg=PA2280&ots=N2EvLTxLPH&dq=Margaret%20Raine%20Hunt%20(1831%E2%80%931912)&pg=PA2280#v=onepage&q=Margaret%20Raine%20Hunt%20(1831%E2%80%931912)&f=false. 
3. ^ Room, Adrian (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins By (5 ed.). McFarland. pp. 53. ISBN 0786443731. http://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C&lpg=PA53&ots=C4ONG2wgrK&dq=Margaret%20Raine%20Hunt%20(1831%E2%80%931912)&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q=Margaret%20Raine%20Hunt%20(1831%E2%80%931912)&f=false. 
4. ^  Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Hunt, Alfred William". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

External links

• Works by Margaret Raine Hunt at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Margaret Raine Hunt in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

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Name	Raine Hunt, Margaret
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Date of birth	1831
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Date of death	1912
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