The Night of No Weather: A weird supernatural tale from prominent Victorian writer Violet Hunt.

Written by Violet Hunt

Narrated by Elliot Fitzpatrick

Isobel Violet Hunt was born on 28th September 1862 in Durham. As a young child her family moved to London and Hunt was brought up amongst the Pre-Raphaelite circle of artists.

As a writer she was comfortable and talented enough to write across several forms including short stories, novels, memoir, and biography. Her novels are excellent examples of New Woman fiction and help illustrate her activities fighting for and promoting better rights for women.

Although she remained unmarried she had lovers as notable as Somerset Maugham, H G Wells and Ford Maddox Ford, the latter whom she lived with for a number of years.

Her collections of supernatural short stories contain much of her best work and despite her considerable talents and literary output her reputation rests both on the literary salons she held at her home in Campden Hill, where the very best of literary society attended, and for her founding of the Women Writers' Suffrage League in 1908 and her participation in the founding of International PEN in 1921.

Violet Hunt died of pneumonia at her home in Campden Hill on 16th January 1942. She was 79 and is buried at Brookwood Cemetery.

In ‘The Night of More Weather’ Hunt once more brilliantly enters a character and describes a world that is compellingly real. But a very different turn of events is about to reveal itself.

• Language: English
• Publisher: The Copyright Group
• Release date: Oct 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9781803545943

Reviews for The Night of No Weather

[clairemays · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Well this is an early example I suppose of a new type of literature, intensely detailed on a woman's inner life. I find it too bad however that the sounding of a woman's interior voice at that time had us hear a resolutely privileged victim. The deal with infantile relationships with animals and Mama is sadly familiar of the time as well.
I know that economic situations like this indeed existed in the late Victorian/ Edwardian eras. Two women in my own family were cheated of their inheritance by the male executor who managed their money into his pocket. Clearly social power had not yet been acquired. Maybe stories like this contributed to change. But how diminishing a portrait of a woman's inner life.