A lingering fascination with Violet Hunt usually concentrates on the entourage of literary friends and lovers who surrounded her brilliant, glamorous, sometimes scandalous life. Critics rarely choose to examine her voluminous contribution as a poet,...

Violet Hunt began The Flurried Years (1926), her autobiography for the years 1908-1915, by suggesting, "Life is a succession of affairs, but there is always one affair for which the years, from birth, are a preparation, a hardening, a tempering, and a...

HARDY BLOOMS KEEP GARDENERS IN COLOR Need a cure for the wintertime garden blues? Take a gesneriad or two and you probably won't need to call the doctor in the morning. Gesneriads aren't found on drugstore shelves but in garden centers under...

Canadian writer Hardwick debuts with this book about a little-remembered British author-feminist. "Immodest Violet" Hunt (1866-1942) grew up among the eminent artistic-literary society of family friends: John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde et al. Her father was the noted pre-Raphael painter Alfred William Hunt; her...