Margaret Raine Hunt
Margaret Hunt (née Raine; 1831–1912) was a British novelist[1] and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm.[2]
Life[edit]
Margaret Raine,[3] was born in Durham, England, 1831.[4] She was the daughter of James Raine and sister to James Raine the younger,[5] she also wrote under the pseudonym Averil Beaumont.[6][7] Her husband was the artist Alfred William Hunt. Her older daughter was the novelist Violet Hunt;[8] 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.[4] 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.
The following list is a selection of novels written by Hunt,[6]
In 1884 she produced the two volume Grimm's Household Tales (Bell & Sons, Covent Garden), with an introduction by Andrew Lang.
