(a period including his eight-day 1911 imprisonment when he refused to pay his wife funds for the support of their two daughters). She was fictionalised by him in two novels: as the scheming Florence Dowell in The Good Soldier and as the promiscuous Sylvia Tietjens in his tetralogy Parade's End. She was also the inspiration for the character Rose Waterfield in Somerset Maugham's novel The Moon and Sixpence and Norah Nesbit in Of Human Bondage. She is also the basis for Claire Temple, the central character of Norah Hoult's There Were No Windows (1944). Hunt also wrote two collections of supernatural stories, Tales of the Uneasy and More Tales of the Uneasy. Tales of the Uneasy was described by E. F. Bleiler as containing "Excellent stories, in which the supernatural is used as a technical device to indicate ironies of fate and the intimate relationship of life and death." Tales of the Uneasy was also included by horror historian R. S. Hadji on his list of "unjustly neglected" horror books. Violet Hunt died of pneumonia in her home in 1942. Her grave and those of her parents is at Brookwood Cemetery. Works The Maiden's Progress (1894) A Hard Woman, a Story in Scenes (1895) The Way of Marriage (1896) Unkist, Unkind! (1897) The Human Interest – A Study in Incompatibilities (1899) Affairs of the Heart (1900) stories The Celebrity at Home (1904) Sooner Or Later (1904) The Cat (1905) The Workaday Woman (1906) White Rose Of Weary Leaf (1908) The Wife of Altamont (1910) The Life Story of a Cat (1910) Tales of the Uneasy (1911) stories The Doll (1911) The Governess (1912) with Margaret Raine Hunt The Celebrity's Daughter (1913) The Desirable Alien (1913) (with Ford Madox Hueffer) The House of Many Mirrors (1915) Zeppelin Nights: A London Entertainment (1916) with Ford Madox Hueffer Their Lives (1916) The Last Ditch (1918) Their Hearts (1921) Tiger Skin (1924) stories More Tales of The Uneasy (1925) stories The Flurried Years (1926) autobiography, (U.S., I Have This To Say) The Wife of Rossetti – Her Life and Death (1932) Return of the Good Soldier: Ford Madox Ford and Violet Hunt's 1917 Diary (1983) (with Ford Madox Ford) Further reading References External links British women short story writers British women novelists 1862 births 1942 deaths English horror writers People educated at Notting Hill & Ealing High School People from Durham, England Writers from