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David Garnett: Fiction
Burke, Leda [pseudo.] Dope Darling (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1919)
Lady into Fox (London: Chatto & Windus, 1922)
A Man in the Zoo (London: Chatto & Windus, 1924)
The Sailor’s Return (London: Chatto & Windus, 1925)
Go She Must (London: Chatto & Windus, 1927)
The Old Dovecote and Other Stories (London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1928)
No Love (London: Chatto & Windus, 1929)
The Grasshoppers Come (London: Chatto & Windus, 1931)
Pocahontas or the Nonparell of Virginia (London: Chatto & Windus, 1933)
Beany-Eye (London: Chatto & Windus, 1935)
A Net for Venus (London: Longman, 1951)
Aspects of Love (London: Chatto & Windus, 1955)
A Shot in the Dark (London: Longmans, 1958)
Two by Two (London: Longmans, 1963)
Ulterior Motives (London: Longmans, 1965)
A Clean Slate (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971)
The Sons of the Falcon (London: Macmillan, 1972)
Plough Over the Bones (London: Macmillan, 1973)
Purl & Plain & Other Stories (London: Macmillan, 1973)
The Master Cat: The True and Unexpurgated Story of Puss in Boots (London: Macmillan, 1974)
Up She Rises (London: Macmillan, 1977)
David Garnett: Non-Fiction
The Battle of Britain: August–October 1940 (London: HMSO, 1941)
The Battle of Britain, abridged by permission from the Air Ministry Account of the Great Days, August to October 1940 (Puffin Picture Book, Harmondsworth/New York: Penguin Books [1941])
War in the Air: September 1939–May 1941 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1941)
The Campaign in Greece and Crete (London: HMSO, 1942)
The Secret History of PWE: The Political Warfare Executive 1939–1945, with an introduction by Andrew Roberts (London: St Ermin’s Press, 2002)
David Garnett: Autobiography & Memoirs
A Rabbit in the Air (London: Chatto & Windus, 1932)
‘War Victims’ Relief’ in Julian Bell, ed., We Did Not Fight: 1914–18 Experiences of War Resisters (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1935)
The Golden Echo (London: Chatto & Windus, 1953)
The Flowers of the Forest (London: Chatto & Windus, 1955)
The Familiar Faces (London: Chatto & Windus, 1962)
The White/Garnett Letters, edited with a preface by David Garnett (London: Jonathan Cape, 1968)
Great Friends: Portraits of Seventeen Writers (London: Macmillan, 1979)
Works by Other Authors
Baldick, Chris, The Modern Movement: Volume 10: 1910–1940 (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2004)
Bates, H E, Edward Garnett (London: Parrish, 1950)
Baynes Jansen, Diana, Jung’s Apprentice: A Biography of Helton Godwin Baynes (Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag, 2003)
Bell, Anne Olivier, (ed.), The Diaries of Virginia Woolf 1915–1935 (London: Hogarth Press, 1976–82)
Bell, Julian, ed., We Did Not Fight: 1914–18 Experiences of War Resisters (London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1935)
Bell, Quentin, Bloomsbury (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1968)
Bell, Quentin, and Virginia Nicholson, Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden (New York: Henry Holt Company, 1997)
Bradbury, Malcolm, and James McFarlane (eds), Modernism 1890–1930 (London: Penguin, 1991)
Cave, Roderic, The Private Press (London: R.R. Bowker Company, second edition revised and enlarged, 1983)
Chisholm, Anne, Frances Partridge: The Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2009)
Crawford, Fred D., Richard Aldington and Lawrence of Arabia: A Cautionary Tale (Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1998)
Cruickshank, Charles, The Fourth Arm: Psychological Warfare 1938–1945 (London: Davis-Poynter, 1977)
Curtis, Anthony, Lit Ed: On Reviewing and Reviewers (Manchester: Carcanet, 1998)
Curtiss, Mina, Other People’s Letters: A Memoir (Houghton Mifflin, 1978; London: Macmillan, 1978)
Dakers, Caroline, The Countryside at War 1914–18 (London: Constable, 1987)
Deghy, Guy, and Keith Waterhouse, Café Royal: Ninety Years of Bohemia (London: Hutchinson, 1955)
DeGroot, Gerard J., Blighty: British Society in the Era of the Great War (London: Longman, 1996)
Delany, Paul, The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle (London: Macmillan, 1987)
Dreyfus, John, A History of the Nonesuch Press (London: Nonesuch Press, 1981)
Farjeon, Eleanor, Edward Thomas: The Last Four Years (Oxford University Press 1958; paperback edition 1979)
Feather, John, A History of British Publishing (London: Croom Helm, 1988)
Gardiner, Juliet, The Thirties: An Intimate History (London: Harper Press, 2010)
Garnett, Angelica, Deceived with Kindness: A Bloomsbury Childhood (London: Chatto & Windus, 1984)
Garnett, Richard, Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1991)
Garnett, Richard, ed., Sylvia & David: The Townsend Warner/Garnett Letters (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1994)
Goodall, Felicity, A Question of Conscience: Conscientious Objection in the Two World Wars (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 1997)
Harman, Claire, Sylvia Townsend Warner: A Biography (London: Chatto & Windus, 1989; Minerva edition 1991)
Harris, Pippa, ed., Song of Love: The Letters of Rupert Brooke and Noel Olivier, 1909–1915 (New York: Crown, 1991)
Hewison, Robert, Under Siege: Literary Life in London 1939–45 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977)
Holroyd, Michael, Lytton Strachey (London: William Heinemann 1967 and 1968; revised edition, Chatto & Windus, paperback, 1994)
Holroyd, Michael, ed., Lytton Strachey by Himself (London: William Heinemann, 1971; Abacus, 2005)
Hyams, Edward, The New Statesman: The History of the First Fifty Years 1913–1963 (London: Longmans, 1963)
James, Lawrence, Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India (London: Little, Brown, 1997)
Jones, Nigel, Rupert Brooke: Life, Death & Myth (London: Richard Cohen Books, 1999)
Jefferson, George, Edward Garnett: A Life in Literature (London: Cape, 1982)
Johnson, Barry C., ed., Tea and Anarchy! The Bloomsbury Diary of Olive Garnett 1890–1893 (London: Bartletts Press, 1989)
Johnson, Barry C., ed., Olive and Stepniak: the Bloomsbury Diary of Olive Garnett (1893–1895) (Birmingham: Bartletts Press, 1993)
Kohn, Marek, Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground (London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1992)
Kynaston, David, Austerity Britain 1945–51 (London: Bloomsbury, 2007)
Lee, Hermione, Virginia Woolf (London: Chatto & Windus, 1996)
Levy, Paul, ed., The Letters of Lytton Strachey (London: Viking, 2005)
Marler, Regina, ed., Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell, introduction by Quentin Bell (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 1993, paperback 1994)
Marler, Regina, Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom (London: Virago Press, 1997)
May, Betty, Tiger Woman: My Story (London: Duckworth, 1929)
Meisel, Perry and Walter Kendrick, eds, Bloomsbury/Freud: The Letters of James and Alix Strachey (1924–1925) (London: Chatto & Windus, 1986)
Meynell, Francis, My Lives (London: Bodley Head, 1971)
Meynell, Francis, A.J.A. Symons and D. Flower, eds, The Nonesuch Century: An Appraisal, a Personal Note … 1923–1934 (London: Nonesuch Press, 1936)
Moorehead, Caroline, Troublesome People: Enemies of War 1916–1986 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987)
Nicholson, Virginia, Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900–1939 (London: Viking, 2002)
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Nicolson, Nigel, and Joanne Trautmann, eds, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, vols 2–6 (London: Hogarth Press, 1976–80)
Overy, Richard, The Morbid Age: Britain between the Wars (London: Allen Lane, 2009)
Partridge, Frances, A Pacifist’s War (London: Hogarth Press, 1978; Robin Clark paperback, 1983)
Partridge, Frances, Memories (London: Victor Gollancz, 1981)
Partridge, Frances, Everything to Lose: Diaries 1945–1960 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1985)
Partridge, Frances, Hanging On: Diaries 1960–1963 (London: William Collins, 1990)
Partridge, Frances, Other People: Diaries 1963–1966 (London: HarperCollins, 1993)
Partridge, Frances, Good Company: Diaries 1967–1970 (London: HarperCollins, 1994)
Partridge, Frances, Life Regained: Diaries 1970–1972 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998)
Partridge, Frances, Ups and Downs: Diaries 1972–1975 (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2001)
Pugh, Martin, We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain between the Wars (London: Bodley Head, 2008)
Seymour, Miranda, Ottoline Morrell: Life on a Grand Scale (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1992)
Skidelsky, Robert, John Maynard Keynes: Economist, Philosopher, Statesman (London: Macmillan, 2003)
Smith, Adrian, The New Statesman: Portrait of a Political Weekly 1913–1931 (London: Frank Cass, 1996)
Spalding, Frances, Vanessa Bell (London: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983)
Spalding, Frances, Duncan Grant (London: Chatto & Windus, 1997)
Spender, Stephen, World Within World (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1951)
White, Jerry, London in the 20th Century (London: Viking, 2001)
Worthen, John, D.H. Lawrence: The Early Years (1885–1912) (Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Worthen, John, D.H. Lawrence: The Life of an Outsider (Allen Lane, 2005)
Ziegler, Philip, London at War 1939–1945 (London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995)
Ziegler, Philip, Rupert Hart-Davis: Man of Letters (London: Chatto & Windus, 2004)
Reference Abbreviations
AS-F
Alix Sargant-Florence
AVG
Angelica Garnett
Berg
Berg Collection, New York Public Library
BK-S
Barbara Ker Seymer
BL
British Library
Bodleian
Bodleian Library, Oxford
CG
Constance Garnett
DG
David Garnett
DHL
D.H. Lawrence
EG
Edward Garnett
EMH
Nellie Heath
Eton
Eton School Library
GLS
Lytton Strachey
HG
Henrietta Garnett
HRHC
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Centre, University of Texas at Austin
Imperial
Imperial College Archives, London
JDH
John Hayward
JMK
John Maynard Keynes
KCC
King’s College, Cambridge
Northwestern
Northwestern University Library
NS&N
New Statesman and Nation
pmk
postmark
Princeton
Princeton University Library
RAG
Ray Garnett
Reading
Reading University Library
RG
Richard Garnett
STW
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Sussex
University of Sussex Library
TEL
T.E. Lawrence
TGA
Tate Gallery Archives
THW
T.H. White
VB
Vanessa Bell
Material formerly belonging to the Estate of David Garnett was consulted at Hilton Hall, the former home of Garnett’s executor, Richard Garnett. Most of this is now at Northwestern University and cited as such.
Index
abortions, 247, 327, 378
Abrahams, William, 464
Ackland, Valentine, 443, 510
Ackroyd, Peter, 531, 538
Adamson, Lynn, 391
Agar, Herbert, 398, 401
Aiyar, V.V.S., 44–6
Aldington, Richard, 414–16
Allen, Clifford, 109
Almgren, Antonia (‘Tony’), 58–9
Andrews, Julie, 457, 492
anti-Semitism, 322
Appleton, Mrs, 343
Asheham, 121–3
Austen, Jane, 275
Aylmer, Felix, 391
Bagenal, Barbara, 86, 98, 111–12, 121–2, 133, 354, 367, 506, 549
Baker, Lettice, 205
Balfour, A.H., 135
Ballet Rambert, 324
Ballets Russes, 65
Banting, John, 236, 278
Barker, Margery, 439, 446, 448, 454–5
Barnes, George, 380
Barrie, J.M., 19, 174
Bates, H.E., 6, 234, 238, 268, 376, 520
Battle of the Marne, 94
Bax, Arnold, 34
Bax, Clifford, 34
Baynes, Godwin, 34–6, 50–1, 59, 61, 67–8, 72–3, 107
Baynes, Ruth, 34, 67, 87, 112
Beacon Hill School, 258
Beaton, Cecil, 288
Bedales School, 127, 258
bee-keeping, 114–15, 142, 377, 532
Bell, Angelica, see Garnett, Angelica
Bell, Clive, 79, 82, 105, 137, 370, 384, 408, 421, 423, 452
and Angelica’s parentage, 316, 324, 353, 360, 553
and conscientious objectors, 106–7, 114, 116
death and legacy, 473–5
Bell, Julian, 112, 124, 242, 267, 295, 298, 300, 334, 446
his biography, 464
death in Spain, 303, 309, 316, 327
We Did Not Fight, 288
Winter Movement, 245
Bell, Julian, 434
Bell, Olivier, 428, 432, 434, 467, 511, 520
Bell, Quentin, 113, 124, 324, 427–8, 432, 434, 452, 467, 503, 507, 510–11, 520
Bell, Tom, 541
Bell, Vanessa, 79, 82, 87, 90, 98, 180, 202, 229, 289, 300, 303, 372, 379, 454
and Angelica’s birth, 138–9, 164
and art dealership project, 139
and censorship of No Love, 235
and conscientious objectors, 106, 110–13, 116, 119
death, 452, 454
and Deceived with Kindness, 553
DG remembers, 520
and DG’s marriage to Angelica, 351–3, 358, 360, 362, 452
and DG’s memoirs, 408, 414, 421
and DG’s relationship with Angelica, 304, 309–10, 312–13, 315–16, 318–21, 325, 327–8, 341–2
and Heilbrun’s Garnett Family, 454
and Hilton Hall, 195–6, 245
her house in France, 223, 225
her painting, 113
relationship with DG and Duncan Grant, 84, 101–5, 124, 130–4, 136
and Virginia Woolf’s suicide, 345
Bell, Virginia, see Nicholson, Virginia
Beltane School, 294
Bennett, Arnold, 235
Bergen, George, 244–5, 476, 492, 494–6
Berlin, Isaiah, 212
Betjeman, John, 288
Betty May, 90–1, 93, 142–4, 155, 162
and DG’s memoirs, 413–14
her trust fund, 479
‘Bevin Boys’, 361–2
Bingham, Henrietta, 181, 184–7, 190, 196, 371, 460
Bingham, Robert Worth (‘Judge’), 185
Birrell, Augustine, 72, 104, 146, 148, 150
Birrell, Francis (Frankie), 72–4, 78, 81–2, 85, 87–8, 126, 212, 408, 556
and art dealership project, 137, 140
and Birrell & Garnett bookshop 141, 146–8,
150–1, 162, 170
dedicatee of Plough Over the Bones, 530
DG remembers, 520
and DG’s marriage, 165, 513
illness and death, 272, 283–4
translates Plato, 183
work with Quakers, 92–9, 104, 288
Birrell & Garnett bookshop, 146–51, 170–1, 174, 176–7, 183, 192, 284, 377
Bishop, Jonathan Peale, 491
Black, Clara (née Patten), 4
Black, David, 4
Black, Ernest, 15
Black, Minnie, 15
Black, Peter, 4, 10, 540
Black, Speedwell, 18
Blake, William, 112, 175–6, 183
Bloomsbury Group
antipathy to marriage, 162, 165
attractions for Bunny, 79, 83, 105, 326
and biography, 464–5, 48–89, 497–8
and Birrell & Garnett
bookshop, 149, 151
compulsion to honesty, 319, 464, 488
and conscientious objectors, 106–7
continuation of traditions, 393
and DG’s memoirs, 421–3
and homosexuality, 487–9, 497–8
love of talk, 310
and need for pretence, 344
and parties, 211
passing of old Bloomsbury values, 377
and personal relationships, 202, 209
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