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The Operation: 'It came again, without fail it came again''
Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.
As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women.
Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years.
Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921.
Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery.
As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women.
Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years.
Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921.
Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery.
- GenresShort Stories
34 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 1, 2023
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Violet Hunt
93 books13 followersIsobel Violet Hunt was a British author and literary hostess. She was an active feminist. She covered several literary forms, including short stories, novels, memoirs, and biographies.
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January 24, 2024
Violet Hunt tells us an interesting story about Joseph Mardell through this short novella. Joseph Mardell’s second wife finds out that her cook has seen a funeral possession leaving their neighboring building on Christmas day. The building is a nursing home, and an actress waiting for an operation is the only person living there. The striking similarity between the actress in the nursing home and Mardell’s first wife, Julia makes things more complicated
Who is actually the person in the nursing home? Why was there a funeral procession on Christmas day? The author tries to answer these questions through this book.
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“All artists are nothing but divine children.”
Who is actually the person in the nursing home? Why was there a funeral procession on Christmas day? The author tries to answer these questions through this book.
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May 12, 2026
3.5⭐
The story centers on Mrs. Florence Mardell, second wife of the celebrated dwarf comic actor Joseph Mardell. Vance, Florence's cook reports seeing a funeral procession leaving a neighboring house the week before on Christmas Day. Yet Vance's inquiries reveal that no one has died there. Instead, the house is a private nursing home with a single patient, a gravely ill actress who has recently undergone an unsuccessful operation and must face another. As the second Mrs. Mardell learns more, she becomes increasingly disturbed. The mysterious patient resembles Julia, Joseph’s first wife. Julia had divorced him upon his request and later sent Florence a strange, unsettling letter. The uncanny funeral vision begins to look less like a mistake and more like a foreboding premonition of Julia’s death.
The story centers on Mrs. Florence Mardell, second wife of the celebrated dwarf comic actor Joseph Mardell. Vance, Florence's cook reports seeing a funeral procession leaving a neighboring house the week before on Christmas Day. Yet Vance's inquiries reveal that no one has died there. Instead, the house is a private nursing home with a single patient, a gravely ill actress who has recently undergone an unsuccessful operation and must face another. As the second Mrs. Mardell learns more, she becomes increasingly disturbed. The mysterious patient resembles Julia, Joseph’s first wife. Julia had divorced him upon his request and later sent Florence a strange, unsettling letter. The uncanny funeral vision begins to look less like a mistake and more like a foreboding premonition of Julia’s death.
June 18, 2026
I really liked this one. Poor Julia
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