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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Virginia Woolf
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
...
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...
Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Wickham
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.
Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 51-157.
51
There were frequent battles, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates
Sylvia Townsend Warner
STW
's early friendships at Oxford
involved young men whom she had known at Harrow, such as David Garnett
and sculptor Stephen Tomlin
.
Warner, Sylvia Townsend. “Introduction”. Letters: Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell, Chatto and Windus, p. vii - xvii.
xiii
Warner, Sylvia Townsend, and David Garnett. “Introduction and Editorial Materials”. Sylvia and David: The Townsend Warner / Garnett Letters, edited by Richard Garnett, Sinclair-Stevenson, p. various pages.
2
Throughout her life, she wrote frequent, engaging and witty...
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
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...
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...
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.