Violet Hunt
Isobel Violet Hunt (28 September 1862 – 16 January 1942) was a British author and literary hostess. Her father was the artist Alfred William Hunt, her mother the novelist and translator Margaret Raine Hunt. Her younger sister Venetia married the designer William Arthur Smith Benson (1854–1924).
Famous quotes containing the words violet and/or hunt:
“A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye!
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“The physician must not only be the healer, but often the consoler.”
—Harriot K. Hunt (1805–1875)