Margaret Hunt was a British novelist and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm

Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm , Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm , were German academics, linguists, cultural researchers, and authors who collected folklore and published several collections of it as Grimm's Fairy Tales, which became very popular...

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Life

Born Margaret Raine, she also wrote under the pseudonym Averil Beaumont. Her husband was the artist Alfred William Hunt

Alfred William Hunt

Alfred William Hunt, , was an English painter. He was son of Andrew Hunt, a landscape painter.-Biography:...

. Her older daughter was the novelist Violet Hunt

Violet Hunt

Isobel Violet Hunt 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 .-Biography:Hunt was born in Durham; the family moved...

; her younger daughter Venetia married the designer William Arthur Smith Benson (1854–1924).

In the 1880s, a family friendship with Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s...

 was developed through her literary connections. In addition to writing her novels she translated a definitive edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Children's and Household Tales is a collection of German origin fairy tales first published in 1812 by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, the Brothers Grimm. The collection is commonly known today as Grimms' Fairy Tales .-Composition:...

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Margaret's grave and those of her husband and daughter are in the Glades of Remembrance at Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery

Brookwood Cemetery is a burial ground in Brookwood, Surrey, England. It is the largest cemetery in the United Kingdom and one of the largest in western Europe.-History:...

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Works

The following list is a selection of novels written by Hunt,

• 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
  Ford Madox Brown
  Ford Madox Brown was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. Arguably, his most notable painting was Work...
  
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In 1884 she produced the two volume Grimm's Household Tales (Bell and sons, Convent Garden), with an introduction by Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang

Andrew Lang was a Scots poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the University of St Andrews are named after him.- Biography :Lang was born in Selkirk...

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