Violet Hunt began The Flurried Years (1926), her autobiography for the years 1908-1915, by suggesting, "Life is a succession of affairs, but there is always one affair for which the years, from birth, are a preparation, a hardening, a tempering, and a more or less serious erosion, possibly, of the sword of the fighter. And there comes, sooner or later, according to the sets and the entries and exits of the other actors, one's own supreme moment. One is on. And that entry, being but human, one may so easily muff. That moment, some will say, I did muff." For Hunt, life was certainly a succession of affairs, of events, dramas, battles, and bad judgments; but Hunt was also a writer of considerable note, and her work is perhaps most significant in the late twentieth century for the strength of her views on women and women's roles. She insightfully...