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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Dedications | D. H. Lawrence | The book's editor, Edward Garnett
, stripped it of much of its sexual language. DHL
had mixed feelings about Garnett's editorial interventions (Garnett cut down the manuscript by more than 2000 words), but ultimately Lawrence... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Olivia Manning | As a very young woman OM
began an affair with the charistmatic Hamish Miles
(Edward Garnett
's assistant at the publishing firm of Jonathan Cape
, and editor of a little magazine). He was... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | Constance Black
and Edward Garnett
were married at the register office in Brighton. Heilbrun, Carolyn. The Garnett Family. Allen and Unwin, 1961. 177 Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991. 65 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | CG
's sister Clementina frequently studied at the British Museum
and there became acquainted with Richard Garnett
, superintendent of the Reading Room. She introduced Constance to Garnett's son Edward
, who was a reader... |
Friends, Associates | Clementina Black | During the 1880s CB
studied privately at the library of the British Museum
. At this time, |
Literary responses | Olivia Manning | Edward Garnett
, the reader for Cape
, thought he had not seen such an impressive novel as this second one since D. H. Lawrence
's The White Peacock. It was to discuss this... |
Literary responses | Constance Garnett | Yet her translations created an amazing legacy. D. H. Lawrence
, a friend of her husband
's, compared the couple's writing styles in these terms: Edward would rack his brain and suffer while his wife,... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Dorothy Richardson | While she was working on this novel, her husband Alan Odle
was preparing for a show of his drawings and book illustrations. Both of these projects necessitated their spending the winter in London, and... |
Publishing | Dorothy Richardson | When she finished the novel early in 1913, she showed it to Jack Beresford and a publisher. Neither of them was enthusiastic, so the manuscript was stored for some time. In January 1915, Beresford suggested... |
Publishing | Jean Rhys | She wrote the stories with Ford's encouragement, and he sent them to an agent in London. He also recommended her work to publisher's reader Edward Garnett
, and wrote a lengthy introduction to the book. Angier, Carole. Jean Rhys: Life and Work. Little, Brown, 1990. 151-2 |
Publishing | John Oliver Hobbes | |
Publishing | Naomi Mitchison | She had finished this book, and her publisher had read it by 1933. She argued for months over its acceptability with her usual publishers, Jonathan Cape
(who had been fined for publishing Radclyffe Hall
's... |
Publishing | E. Nesbit | Biographer Julia Briggs
believes that the original story was stimulated by EN
's writing about her own schooldays for the Girls' Own Paper. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | VW
submitted the completed manuscript of her first novel, The Voyage Out, to her half-brother Gerald Duckworth
, who, on the advice of Edward Garnett
, accepted it for publication on 12 April. Bell, Quentin. Virginia Woolf: A Biography. Hogarth Press, 1972, 2 vols. 2: 10-11 |
Residence | Constance Garnett | The Cearne was a mock-ancient house, half a mile from the nearest road, without electricity or an indoor toilet. Electricity was installed in 1929. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Tomalin, Clare. “Constance Garnett (1861 - 1946)”. Breaking Bounds. Six Newnham Lives, edited by Biddy Passmore, Newnham College, 2014, pp. 14-25. 20, 22 |
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