David Garnett

Standard Name: Garnett, David

Connections

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Textual Production Constance Garnett
CG refused to compose even her own introductions and prefaces, leaving that task to her husband or son .
Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin.
164, 185
Textual Production Sylvia Townsend Warner
Later, other epistolary correspondences of STW 's were edited and published: that with David Garnett , as Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, 1994; selections from that...
Textual Production Dora Carrington
A selection of DC 's writings, titled Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, was edited by David Garnett and published by Jonathan Cape ; it was an astonishing success,
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
xv
according to biographer Gretchen Gerzina
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Textual Production Dora Carrington
DC sold painted tiles to increase her small income: decorating the tiles, which were sold anonymously, was a time-consuming but successful venture.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
280
She also created small glass paintings, often accentuated with bits of tinsel...
Residence Stella Benson
During this visit to London, SB met many cultural, political, and social figures, including Wyndham Lewis (who drew a sketch of her), David Garnett , Kingsley Martin , Charles Morgan , Phyllis Bottome ,...
Publishing Anna Wickham
Since AW 's death, however, attention to her has been largely confined to two posthumous editions of her work: Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett (Chatto & Windus, 1971), and Writings, edited by...
Publishing Ling Shuhua
LS and Julian Bell translated and edited several of her stories during their romantic relationship in the mid-1930s, when Bell lived in China. At least one, Writing a Letter, went unpublished. Bell sent...
Publishing Sylvia Townsend Warner
The poems were sent to Chatto and Windus by her friend David Garnett .
Staley, Thomas F., editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 34. Gale Research.
34: 279
Publishing Margiad Evans
ME 's first short story to see print, The Little Red Umbrella, appeared in the New Statesman and Nation after being accepted by David Garnett .
Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen. Margiad Evans. Seren.
146, 55
Material Conditions of Writing Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW began writing the diaries in 1927, when her friend the novelist David Garnett gave her a notebook. She wrote in them inconsistently, even abandoning them for a period of years, but then continued to...
Literary responses Virginia Woolf
Lytton Strachey told Leonard Woolf that Virginia's story was a work of genius. The liquidity of the style fills me with envy . . . . How on earth does she make the English language...
Literary responses Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW 's friend David Garnett seriously disapproved of the latter part of the book and the heroine's characterisation. However, Vita Sackville-West particularly liked the part of the story that Garnett criticised.
Harman, Claire. Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography. Chatto and Windus.
86
Literary responses Sylvia Townsend Warner
Critics concurred that the collection deserved celebration, and that STW was a wise as well as an able writer. Times Literary Supplement reviewer Gabriele Annan found the book an attack on accepted thinking, and was...
Friends, Associates Margiad Evans
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...
Friends, Associates Eleanor Farjeon
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

Timeline

1923: Nonesuch Press was founded at 30 Gerrard...

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1923

Nonesuch Press was founded at 30 Gerrard Street, London, by Francis Meynell , Vera Mendel (who became his second wife two years later), and David Garnett .

1946: Rupert Hart-Davis Limited was founded by...

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1946

Rupert Hart-Davis Limited was founded by Rupert Hart-Davis and David Garnett , co-founder of Nonesuch Press , at 53 Connaught Street, London.

Texts

Carrington, Dora et al. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, 1971, pp. 7-11.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994, p. various pages.
Garnett, David et al. “Preface”. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 9-13.
Wickham, Anna. Selected Poems. Editor Garnett, David, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters. Editor Garnett, Richard, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.