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As the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge
from the night. A seance reveals a ghastly secret in the murk of
Regent's Canal. From south of the Thames come chilling reports of a
spring-heeled spectre, and in Stoke Newington rumours abound of an
opening to another world among the quiet alleys. Join Elizabeth
Dearnley on this atmospheric tour through a shadowy London, a city
which has long inspired writers of the weird and uncanny. Waiting
in the hazy streets are eerie tales from Charlotte Riddell, Lettice
Galbraith and Violet Hunt, along with haunting pieces by Virginia
Woolf, Arthur Machen, Sam Selvon and many more.
This early work by Violet Hunt was originally published in 1904 and
we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.
'The Celebrity at Home' is a novel by the author of 'A Hard Woman'.
Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham,
England. Hunt covered several literary forms, including short
stories, novels, memoirs, and biographies. Her first published work
was her novel 'The Maiden's Progress' (1894) which fell into the
New Woman genre and represented her ideals as an active feminist.
These political views led to her founding the Women Writer's
Suffrage League in 1908. Feminism however, was by no means her only
subject matter, with works like 'Tales of the Uneasy' (1911) being
a collection of supernatural fiction short stories. Although Hunt
produced many works, her reputation is as much for the literary
salons she held at her home in Campden Hill as it is for her
writing. She would entertain guests such as Rebecca West, Ezra
Pound, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, and other important writers
of the time.
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