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.
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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...
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...
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
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 At least one, Writing a Letter, went unpublished.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
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
Anna Wickham
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...
Friends, Associates
Anna Wickham
AW
frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern.
Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11.
9-10
Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48.
26
According to her friend David Garnett
, she preferred the hard-up to the well-off, the doomed and...
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.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters. Editor Garnett, Richard, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994.