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David Garnett English author Sometimes known by his childhood nickname Bunny, was the son of Edward Garnett, an influential publisher's reader, and Constance Garnett, a translator of Russian classics. He grew up among writers, including the Bloomsbury set. He was married to illustrator Rachel Alice Marshall, who died in 1940, and then to Angelica Bell, daughter of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Stephen Bell, when Angelica was born, he admired her day-old beauty and idly wrote to Strachey: "I think of marrying it. When she is 20, I shall be 46 - will it be scandalous?" it was and Vanessa and Duncan weren't pleased. Like many daughters of odd families, Angelica wrote a book Deceived by Kindness. David Garnett operated a bookstore in Soho and wrote a number of novels, including Lady into Fox (1922), The Sailor's Return (1925), and Aspects of Love (1955). His works also include an edition of the letters of T. E. Lawrence (1938), and three autobiographical volumes: The Golden Echo (1953), The Flowers of the Forest (1955), and The Familiar Faces (1962). |
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