David Garnett

STW 's early friendships at Oxford involved young men whom she had known at Harrow, such as David Garnett and sculptor Stephen Tomlin . Throughout her life, she wrote frequent, engaging and witty...

The poems were sent to Chatto and Windus by her friend David Garnett .

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. There were frequent battles, and...

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...

AW frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern. According to her friend David Garnett , she preferred the hard-up to the well-off, the doomed and...

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...

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 ...

Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...

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...