David Garnett

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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 .

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 At least one, Writing a Letter, went unpublished.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...

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 ,...

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, according to biographer Gretchen Gerzina

DC sold painted tiles to increase her small income: decorating the tiles, which were sold anonymously, was a time-consuming but successful venture. She also created small glass paintings, often accentuated with bits of tinsel...

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...

CG refused to compose even her own introductions and prefaces, leaving that task to her husband or son .