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The Tiger Skin
And Other Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt
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A meeting of lost souls in the care of a headless coachman. An obsession with eugenics descends into a cruel madness. In 1911, the British writer, feminist and literary salon hostess Violet Hunt published her groundbreaking first collection of uncanny stories, Tales of the Uneasy, exploring...
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A meeting of lost souls in the care of a headless coachman. An obsession with eugenics descends into a cruel madness. In 1911, the British writer, feminist and literary salon hostess Violet Hunt published her groundbreaking first collection of uncanny stories, Tales of the Uneasy, exploring psychological and ghostly hauntings shot through with tragedy. Seeking to promote Hunt's achievements as a writer often obscured by the famous authors of her social set literary historian Melissa Edmundson presents a new edition of her eeriest work, including material from Hunt's 1923 volume More Tales of the Uneasy.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780712355780
Publisher: British Library Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 September 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: British Library Publishing
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Melissa Edmundson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Weight: 250g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Violet Hunt (18621942) was a British author and literary hostess. As an active feminist, she wrote many novels of the New Woman genre and founded the Women Writers' Suffrage League and participated in the founding of International PEN. She also authored two collections of supernatural stories, Tales of the Uneasy and More Tales of the Uneasy.
Melissa Edmundson is a collector, scholar and anthologist specialising in strange and uneasy fiction particularly by women writers of Victorian and Edwardian periods. She has published several collections of classic short stories with Victorian Secrets and Handheld Press including Women's Weird and Women's Weird 2 in 2019 and 2020.
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