David Garnett

Standard Name: Garnett, David

Connections

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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 ,...
Friends, Associates Dora Carrington
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 .
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
58-9
Friends, Associates Dora Carrington
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.
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
61
Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
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 .
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
95-6
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.
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according to biographer Gretchen Gerzina
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Family and Intimate relationships Dora Carrington
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...
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...
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
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
Family and Intimate relationships Constance Garnett
After an extremely difficult labour, CG gave birth to her only son, the future novelist, editor, and publisher David Garnett .
Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson.
77
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
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...
Friends, Associates Katherine Mansfield
The others who were there included J. T. Sheppard , Fredegond Shove , Carrington , David Garnett , G. F. Short , Lytton Strachey , and Evan Morgan .
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
410
Mansfield had parted with Murry...
Cultural formation Sylvia Townsend Warner
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...

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.