See also David S. Garnett (science fiction writer) David S. Garnett is a UK science fiction author whose novels include Cosmic Carousel and Bikini Planet. ...

David Garnett (1892 – 1981) was a British writer and publisher, and a prominent member of the Bloomsbury group. He was born March 9, 1892 in Brighton, England, and died February 17, 1981 in Montcuq, France. As a child, he had a cloak made of rabbit skin and thus received the nickname "Bunny" by which he was known by friends and intimates all his life. 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Bloomsbury Group or Bloomsbury Set or just Bloomsbury, as its adherents would generally refer to it, was an English group of artists and scholars that existed from around 1905 until around World War II. // History The group began as an informal social assembly of recent Cambridge University graduates (four... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... 1892 (MDCCCXCII) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location (dark green) within the British Isles Languages None official English de facto Capital None official London de facto Largest city London Area – Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population – Total (mid-2004) – Total (2001... February 17 is the 48th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Montcuq is a little town in Western France in the Lot département. ...

The only child of Edward Garnett and Constance Garnett, Garnett wrote the novel Aspects of Love, on which the later Andrew Lloyd-Webber musical was based. He ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell during the 1920s. He also founded (with Francis Meynell) the Nonesuch Press. Edward Garnett (1868–1937) was an English writer, critic and a significant and personally generous literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers published. ... Constance Garnett (née Black) (December 19, 1861 - December 17, 1946) was an English translator whose translations of nineteenth-century Russian classics first introduced them on a wide basis to the English public. ... Aspects of Love is a novel by author David Garnett centering around the loves of a young soldier named Alexis Golightly, his uncle George Dillingham, and the beautiful actress Rose Vibert from whom neither man could escape. ... Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born March 22, 1948) is a highly successful British composer of musical theatre. ... The main entrance to the British Museum. ... Francis Meynell (1891-1975) was the poet and printer at the Nonesuch Press. ... Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera, and David Garnett. ...

His first wife was illustrator Rachel "Ray" Marshall (1891-1940), sister of the last surviving member of the Bloomsbury group, Frances Partridge. He and Ray had two sons, but she died relatively young of breast cancer.

Although Garnett was primarily heterosexual, he had brief homosexual affairs in his youth with Francis Birrell and Duncan Grant. He was present at the birth of Grant's daughter, Angelica Bell on December 25, 1918 and wrote to a friend shortly afterwards, "I think of marrying it. When she is 20, I shall be 46 -- will it be scandalous?". When Angelica was in her early twenties, they did marry on May 8, 1942 to the horror of her parents. Heterosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love or sexual desire exclusively for members of the opposite sex or gender, contrasted with homosexuality and distinguished from bisexuality and asexuality. ... Self Portrait, 1920, National Gallery of Scotland. ... Angelica Garnett (née Bell, December 25, 1918) is a British author and artist. ... December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining. ... 1918 (MCMXVIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ...

They had four daughters together (Amaryllis, Henrietta, and twins Nerissa and Fanny) but later separated. Their eldest daughter Amaryllis Garnett (1943-1973) was an actress. Henrietta Garnett, their second daughter, eventually married Burgo Partridge, her father's nephew by his first wife Ray. She oversees the legacies of both David Garnett and Duncan Grant.

After his separation from Angelica, Garnett moved to France and lived at the Chateau de Charry, Montcuq (near Cahors) until his death in 1981.

Works

• Turgenev (1917)
• Dope Darling (1919) novel, as Leda Burke
• Lady into Fox (1922) novel
• A Man in the Zoo (1924) novel
• The Sailor's Return (1925) novel
• Go She Must! (1927) novel
• The Old Dove Cote (1928) stories
• A Voyage to the Island of the Articoles by André Maurois (1928) translator
• Never Be a Bookseller (1929) memoirs
• No Love (1929) novel
• The Grasshoppers Come (1931)
• A Terrible Day (1932)
• A Rabbit in the Air. Notes from a diary kept while learning to handle an aeroplane (1932)
• Pocahontas (1933)
• Letters from John Galsworthy 1900-1932 (1934)
• Beany-Eye (1935)
• The Letters of T. E. Lawrence (1938) editor
• The Battle of Britain (1941)
• War in the Air (1941)
• The Campaign in Greece and Crete (1942)
• The Novels of Thomas Love Peacock (1948) editor
• The Golden Echo (1953) autobiography (i)
• The Flowers of the Forest (1955) autobiography (ii)
• Aspects of Love (1955)
• A Shot in the Dark (1958)
• A Net for Venus (1959) novel
• The Familiar Faces (1962) autobiography (iii)
• Two by Two (1963) novel
• 338171 T. E. (Lawrence of Arabia) by Victoria Ocampo (1963) translator
• Ulterior Motives (1966) novel
• The White/Garnett Letters (1968) correspondence with T. H. White
• Carrington: Letters & Extracts From Her Diaries (1970)
• First 'Hippy' Revolution (1970)
• A Clean Slate (1971)
• The Sons of the Falcon (1972) novel
• Purl and Plain (1973) stories
• Plough Over the Bones (1973) novel
• The Master Cat (1974)
• Up She Rises (1977)
• Great Friends. Portraits of Seventeen Writers (1979)
• David Garnett. C.B.E. A Writer's Library (1983)
• The Secret History of PWE : The Political Warfare Executive, 1939-1945 (2002)

Lady into Fox is David Garnetts 1922 debut novel, in which Sylvia Tebrick, 24 year-old wife of Richard Tebrick, suddenly turns into a fox. ... Victoria Ocampo (April 7, 1890? - January 27, 1979) was an Argentine intellectual, described by Jorge Luis Borges as la mujer más argentina (the most Argentine woman). Best known as an advocate for others and as publisher of the magazine Sur, she was also a writer and critic in her... Terence Hanbury White (May 29, 1906 - January 17, 1964) was a writer. ...

Reference

• Heilbrun, Carolyn G. The Garnett Family (1961) also on Richard Garnett, Jeremiah Garnett, Edward Garnett, Constance Garnett

Richard Garnett (February 27, 1835 – April 13, 1906) was a scholar, librarian, biographer and poet. ... Edward Garnett (1868–1937) was an English writer, critic and a significant and personally generous literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers published. ... Constance Garnett (née Black) (December 19, 1861 - December 17, 1946) was an English translator whose translations of nineteenth-century Russian classics first introduced them on a wide basis to the English public. ...

External links

• Works by David Garnett at Project Gutenberg