David Garnett

Although she had a long-lasting love-affair with a man (musicologist Percy Buck ) and shared affectionate, long-term, non-sexual relationships with men (for example with David Garnett ), her thirty-nine-year lesbian relationship with Valentine Ackland (which...

DC began a long friendship with Virginia Woolf when she was summoned to Woolf's country home, Asheham, after breaking into the house with Barbara Hiles and David Garnett .

Woolf recalled their first conversation to Garnett : It flatters us a good deal to see what a reputation for a temper we've got. I telephoned to Miss Carrington, and heard her quake at the...

AW 's autobiography indicates that the marriage soured quickly; within a few years she felt her husband had regressed from my devoted lover to my enemy and my judge. There were frequent battles, and...

Virginia and Vanessa (1879-1961, the eldest of Leslie and Julia Stephen's children), were close to one another throughout their lives. In A Sketch of the Past, VW recalls that after the death of their...

After an extremely difficult labour, CG gave birth to her only son, the future novelist, editor, and publisher David Garnett .

Adrian (1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge ...

DC met D. H. Lawrence , Frieda Lawrence , and David Garnett at the home of another writer, Gilbert Cannan : Cholesbury Manor House in Cholesbury, where she was a guest with Mark Gertler .

DC met certain members of the Bloomsbury Group for the first time: she attended the World's Fair at Islington with David Garnett , Vanessa Bell , and Duncan Grant , among others.

AW 's vibrant personality attracted many friends, several of whom were writers and artists. By all accounts, she was an extraordinarily vital and charismatic woman. David Garnett describes her as a a very handsome, big...

AW frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern. According to her friend David Garnett , she preferred the hard-up to the well-off, the doomed and...

Though a lover of solitude, ME was also sociable. She made lifelong friendships on her stay in Brittany at the age of seventeen. While staying with Mrs Lloyd-Jones she met Professor Ifor Williams and his...

Back in London she acquired a circle of largely musical friends, many of them later well-known names, including Myra Hess and Clifford and Arnold Bax . Later this circle expanded to include literary people: Viola Meynell

Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...

The others who were there included J. T. Sheppard , Fredegond Shove , Carrington , David Garnett , G. F. Short , Lytton Strachey , and Evan Morgan . Mansfield had parted with Murry...