Connection Failure: War, Spiritualism, and Communications Media in Violet Hunt’s “Love’s Last Leave”

An overlooked figure of modernist circles, Violet Hunt was a suffragette, novelist, and author ghost stories. In her second collection haunted narratives, More Tales The Uneasy (1925), explores the ghostliness Great War, both for those on front at home. this essay, we focus third story in volume, “Love’s Last Leave”, argue that includes tropes communications media to articulate real deadliness War. Communications technology spiritualism share similar historical evolution, Leave” types medium fail connect home with “who are gone”. By re-narrating shared history media, implies devastation war even when plot fails do so. use theory narratology show how gaps, absences, uncertainties story’s narrative structure replicated by story. failure narrative, technological, spiritual mediums transmit clear messages throughout emphasizes deadly disconnect between sender receiver can be.