Margaret Raine Hunt

Margaret Hunt (née Raine; 1831–1912) was a British novelist[1] and translator of the tales of the Brothers Grimm.

Her older daughter was the novelist Violet Hunt;[8] her younger daughter Venetia Benson, née Hunt (1864–1946) married the designer William Arthur Smith Benson (1854–1924).

In the 1880s, a family friendship with Oscar Wilde was developed through her literary connections.

[4] In addition to writing her novels, she translated a definitive edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales.

The following list is a selection of novels written by Hunt,[6] In 1884 she produced the two volume Grimm's Household Tales (Bell & Sons, Covent Garden), with an introduction by Andrew Lang.