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]
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 & Sons, Covent Garden), with an introduction by Andrew Lang.
References
^John Sutherland (1990) [1989]. "Hunt, ... [Margaret]". The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. p. 314. ISBN 9780804718424.
^Grimm's household tales, trans. & ed. by Margaret Hunt with an intro. by Andrew Lang, hathitrust.org
^Hunt [née Raine], Margaret (1831–1912), novelist Oxford Biography Index Number 101055789 Primary authority: Oxford DNB
^ a bCushing, William (1888). Initials and Pseudonyms: A Dictionary of Literary Disguises. T.Y. Crowell & Company. pp. 239–.
^"Hunt, Margaret". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 896.
^ a bJoanne Shattock, ed. (2000). "The late Nineteenth Century Novel". The Cambridge bibliography of English literature; Volumes 1800–1900. Vol. 4. Cambridge University Press. pp. 1581–1582. ISBN 978-0-521-39100-9.
^Room, Adrian (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins By (5 ed.). McFarland. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-7864-4373-4.