Marianne Hunt [née Kent]

(1787-1857)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Hunt Marianne (fl 1806-1850) nee Kent wife of Leigh Hunt LBT ID: MaHunt1857	B/BAP: 1787 DIED: 1857-01-26
SOURCES: DNB ["Leigh Hunt"]; W. H. Auden: Family Ghosts
The daughter of Anne Kent and wife of Leigh Hunt; they were married in 1809. Charles MacFarlane, who knew her in the 1830s, described her as “his mismanaging, unthrifty wife, the most barefaced, persevering, pertinacious of mendicants.”
REFERENCES TO Marianne Hunt [née Kent]: Thomas Moore to Leigh Hunt, August 1812 in “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt” in The Tatler 2 (11 January 1831) 441-43 Found 1: ¶ 3 Leigh Hunt to Charles Cowden Clarke, 13 July 1813 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 A Review of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, for October 1817 (Edinburgh: James Anderson, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 19 John Keats to Leigh Hunt, 10 May 1817 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 1: ¶ 20 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 24 June 1817 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Thomas Moore to Leigh Hunt, 21 January 1818 in “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (13 January 1831) 449-51 Found 1: ¶ 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 22 March 1818 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 1 June 1818 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 1: ¶ 5 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 3 September 1819 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ 8 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “On the Cockney School of Poetry. No. VI” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine 6 (October 1819) 70-76 Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 21 Percy Bysshe Shelley to Leigh Hunt, 2 December 1819 in Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Found 1: ¶ 4 Leigh Hunt to William Hazlitt; [April 1821] in Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 24 December 1821 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Vincent Novello, 11 February 1822 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello, 17 June 1817 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Edward Ellerker Williams to Jane Johnson [Williams] [6 July 1822] in Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Found 1: ¶ 4 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 21 August 1823 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 3 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, [October 1824?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 1 August 1828 in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Leigh Hunt, [11? December 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 4 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Lord Byron. Found 4: ¶ 3 ¶ 10 ¶ 22 ¶ 30 Mr. Shelley. With a Criticism on his Genius. Mr. Keats. With a Criticism on his Writings. The Examiner—the Author’s Imprisonment. Found 1: ¶ 119 The Author’s Visit to Italy. Found 5: ¶ 133 ¶ 139 ¶ 158 ¶ 160 ¶ 185 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Literary Chronicle (26 January 1828) 49-52 Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ 3 “Review of Hunt, Lord Byron and Some of his Contemporaries” in Literary Gazette (26 January 1828) 54-56 Found 4: ¶ 2 ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 7 [Henry Southern], “Leigh Hunt's Lord Byron” in London Magazine NS 10 (February 1828) 211-33 Found 2: ¶ 34 ¶ 40 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Quarterly Review 37 (March 1828) 402-26 Found 2: ¶ 80 ¶ 82 Wilson, John, 1785-1854, “Review of Lord Byron and Some of His Contemporaries” in Blackwood's Magazine 23 (March 1828) 362-408 Found 9: ¶ 29 ¶ 51 ¶ 59 ¶ 60 ¶ 66 ¶ 68 ¶ 69 ¶ 70 ¶ 73 “Review of Lord Byron and some of His Contemporaries” in Monthly Review S3 7 (March 1828) 300-12 Found 3: ¶ 17 ¶ 19 ¶ 30 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 23 December [1829?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1818 “Byron’s Memoirs” in Monthly Magazine NS XI (February 1831) 145-59 Found 1: ¶ 53 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 18 February [1830?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 [Thomas Love Peacock], “Moore’s Letters and Journals of Byron” in Westminster Review 12 (January 1825) 269-304 Found 2: ¶ 8 ¶ n2 [John Gibson Lockhart], “Moore's Life of Lord Byron” in Quarterly Review 44 (January 1831) 168-226 Found 1: ¶ 117 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt” in The Tatler 2 (11 January 1831) 441-43 Found 1: ¶ 3 Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859, “Lord Byron—Mr. Moore—and Mr. Leigh Hunt [Continued]” in The Tatler 2 (13 January 1831) 449-51 Found 1: ¶ 3 “[Moore’s Life of Lord Byron. Continued]” in The Edinburgh Literary Journal (15 January 1831) 38-40 Found 1: ¶ 9 [Charles Webb Le Bas], “Life of Lord Byron” in British Critic 4th Series 9 (April 1831) 257-324 Found 2: ¶ 132 ¶ 143 [John Mitford], “Lady Blessington's Conversations of Lord Byron” in The Gentleman’s Magazine NS 1 (April 1834) 347-58 Found 1: ¶ 37 Leigh Hunt to Mary Cowden Clarke, 21 October [1844?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 1 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley (London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847) The Pisan Circle Found 1: ¶ 13 Casa Magni Found 1: ¶ 18 Leigh Hunt to Mary Sabilla Novello, 4 August [1851?] in Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Found 1: ¶ 2 Trelawny, Edward John, 1792-1881, Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron (London: Edward Moxon, 1858) Chapter XI. William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XX 1821 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 6 Leigh Hunt Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1827 Charles Macfarlane, Reminiscences of a Literary Life (London: John Murray, 1917) LEIGH HUNT Found 4: ¶ 4 ¶ 6 ¶ 8 ¶ 9