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2
  DG/AVG, Charry, 26 March 1971 [KCC].

3
  Partridge,
Life Regained
, p. 151; diary entry for 25 April 1971.

4
  Henrietta Garnett, ‘David Garnett'. in S.P. Rosenbaum, ed.,
The Bloomsbury Group: a Collection of Memoirs and Commentary
(Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1995), p. 300.

5
  Ibid., p. 301.

6
  Ibid., p. 301.

7
  DG/AVG, Charry, ‘Evening' 2 October 1971 [KCC].

8
  DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 9 November 1972 [KCC].

9
  DG, Recipe book, unpublished MS [HG].

10
DG/STW, Le Verger de Charry, 2 September 1971 in RG, ed.,
Sylvia and David
, p. 159.

11
David Garnett,
A Clean Slate
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1971), endpaper blurb.

12
DG/STW [Le Verger de Charry, Montcuq; apparently incomplete: September 1970] in RG, ed.,
Sylvia and David
, p.157.

13
DG,
Clean Slate
, p. 28 and p. 35.

14
DG/AVG, Charry, 14 February 1972 [KCC].

15
Quoted in David Garnett,
The Sons of the Falcon
(London: Macmillan 1972; Quartet paperback edition, 1973), blurb.

16
Quoted in ibid., blurb.

17
Quoted on verso of David Garnett,
Plough Over the Bones
(London: Macmillan, 1973).

18
RAG/Tom Marshall, Kislovodsk, Caucasus, Tuesday [16/19 July 1913], in Ray Marshall, ‘Ray in Russia 1913', unpublished journal and letters compiled and edited by Richard Garnett [RG], p. 32.

19
Quoted in DG,
Sons of the Falcon
(Quartet paperback edition, 1973).

20
DG, Notebook [c. 1972], unpublished MS [Northwestern].

21
DG/STW, Le Verger de Charry, 8 June 1976, in RG, ed.,
Sylvia and David
, p. 211.

22
‘Visitors Book of the Ancienne Auberge, St Martin-de-Vers & Le Verger de Charry, Montcuq 1963–72', 13–19 June 1972 [Northwestern].

23
R. Peto/DG, ‘Saturday' [pmk 29 May 1972] [Northwestern].

24
Partridge,
Ups and Downs
, p. 75; diary entry for 23 September.

25
DG/AVG, Charry, 5 October 1972 [KCC].

26
DG, Pocket Diary 1972, ‘Notes', between September and October [Northwestern].

27
DG/AVG, Charry, 27 October 1972 [KCC].

28
DG/STW, Le Verger de Charry, 2 November 1972, in RG, ed.,
Sylvia and David
, p. 170.

29
DG, Pocket Diary 1973, 3 February [Northwestern].

30
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 27 January 1973 [KCC].

31
DG/STW, Charry, 1 March 1973, in RG, ed.,
Sylvia and David
, p. 173.

32
DG/AVG, Charry, 31 January 1973 [KCC].

33
David Garnett,
Purl and Plain and Other Stories
(London: Macmillan, 1973), p. 24.

34
1 April 1973.

35
DG,
Purl and Plain
, p. 24.

36
DG, Pocket Diary 1973, 27 April [Northwestern].

37
AVG/DG, 57 Ellington Street, 12 May 1973 [KCC].

38
AVG/DG, Charleston, 5 May 1973 [KCC].

39
RG/SK, 30 January 2012.

40
DG/AVG, Charry, 8 May 1973 [KCC].

41
DG, Pocket Diary 1973, 10 May [Northwestern].

42
DG/AVG, Charry, 29 May 1973 [KCC].

43
Quoted in Partridge,
Ups and Downs
, p, 150; diary entry for 8 May 1973.

44
DG/AVG, Le Verger de Charry, 8 May 1973 [KCC].

45
DG/F Partridge, Charry, 7 May 1973 [KCC].

46
DG/F Partridge, Charry, 19 June 1973 [KCC].

47
DG/Maggie Hobson, Charry, 3 April 1979 [RG].

48
DG, Pocket Diary 1973, notes between May and June [Northwestern].

Chapter Thirty-Six

1
  DG/AVG, The Roadside beyond St Yrieuse, Thursday 6 December [KCC].

2
  David Garnett,
Plough Over the Bones
(London: Macmillan, 1973), p. 89.

3
  18 October 1973.

4
  20 October 1973.

5
  18 October 1973.

6
  20 October 1973.

7
  20 October 1973.

8
  DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 30 March 1974 [KCC].

9
  Partridge,
Ups and Downs
, p. 299; diary entry for 5 July 1974.

10
Partridge,
Ups and Downs
, pp. 316–17; diary entry for 12 August 1974.

11
Partridge,
Ups and Downs
, p. 340; diary entry for 30 December 1974.

12
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 14 February 1975 [KCC].

13
Quoted in DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 17 February 1975 [KCC].

14
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 20 February 1975, in DG's hand at top: ‘NOT SENT', TS, [Northwestern].

15
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 23 February 1975 [KCC].

16
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 27 February 1975 [KCC].

17
19 December 1974.

18
David Garnett,
The Master Cat: The True and Unexpurgated Story of Puss in Boots
(London: Macmillan, 1974), p. 134.

19
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 14 March 1975 [KCC].

20
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 18 April 1975 [KCC].

21
Partridge,
Everything to Lose
, p. 119.

22
DG, ‘Lady into Woolf', Summer Books,
New Statesman
, 11 June 1976.

23
Frederic Raphael, ‘Aspects of Garnett',
PN Review
, 115, May–June 1997.

24
DG/AVG, Charry, ‘2 am' [18 February 1977] [KCC].

25
DG/AVG, Charry, 24 February 1977 [KCC].

26
DG/AVG, Charry, Saturday evening 9 April 1977 [KCC].

27
DG/AVG, Charry, 24 February 1977 [KCC].

28
24 March 1977.

29
25 March 1977.

30
DG/AVG, Charry, 24 September 1977 [KCC].

31
V. Nicholson, interview, 12 October 2010.

32
12 March 1975.

33
DG/STW, Le Verger de Charry, 22 October 1977, in RG, ed.,
Sylvia and David
, p. 232–3.

34
Ibid., p. 232.

35
www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030215/windows/above.htm
.

36
DG/AVG, Charry, 12 May 1978 [KCC].

Chapter Thirty-Seven

1
  Quentin Bell, Obituary of David Garnett,
Royal Society of Literature: Reports for 1979–80 and 1980–81
(London: Royal Society of Literature, 1981), p. 46.

2
  DG, Pocket Diary 1978, 21 July [Northwestern].

3
  V. Nicholson, interview, 12 October 2010.

4
  DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 21 February 1979 [KCC].

5
  David Garnett,
Great Friends: Portraits of Seventeen Writers
(London: Macmillan, 1979).

6
  
Financial Times
, 16 June 1979.

7
  Jonathan Raban, ‘Broad Church',
New Statesman
, 15 June, 1979.

8
  J. Raban/DG, 145 Felsham Road SW15, 27 June 1979 [Northwestern].

9
  DG, Pocket Diary 1979, Monday 11 June [HG].

10
Matthew J. Bruccoli/DG, Jefferies Professor of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, 1 May 1980 [Northwestern].

11
F. Scott Fitzgerald, quoted in DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 23 May 1980 [KCC].

12
DG/M. Curtiss, Le Verger, 1 September 1980 [Berg].

13
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 7 August 1980 [KCC].

14
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 24 November 1980 [KCC].

15
DG, Pocket Diary 1981, 30 January [Northwestern].

16
HG, ‘Aspects of my Father'.

17
RG/SGK, 4 October 2011.

18
RG/SGK, 4 October 2011.

19
DG/F. Partridge, Charry, 11 December 1975 [KCC].

20
R. Peto/DG, Le Rocher de la Mere, Le Vigan, 8 February [1981] [Northwestern].

Afterlife

1
  Partridge,
Everything to Lose
, p. 119.

2
  Bell, Obituary of David Garnett.

3
  Angelica Garnett,
Deceived with Kindness
(London: Chatto & Windus 1984; Oxford University Press paperback, 1985) p. 175.

4
  AVG,
Deceived
, p. 157.

5
  VB/R. Fry, Eleanor Farm, West Wittering [Chichester], Sunday [?9 May] [1916] [TGA], quoted in Marler, ed.,
Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
, p. 179.

6
  DG, Pocket Diary 1939, entry for Friday 2 June [Northwestern]: ‘after dinner told her [Angelica] about Duncan & myself which she did not know'.

7
  Quoted in Regina Marler,
Bloomsbury Pie: The Making of the Bloomsbury Boom
(London: Virago Press, 1997), p. 238.

8
  AVG,
Deceived
, p. 156.

9
  In, respectively: Miranda Seymour,
Robert Graves: Life on the Edge
(London: Doubleday, 1995), p. 166; Anthony Curtis,
Lit Ed: on Reviewing and Reviewers
(Manchester: Carcanet, 1998), p. 206; Nigel Jones,
Rupert Brooke: Life, Death & Myth
(London: Richard Cohen Books, 1999), p. 72.

10
Paul Delany,
The Neo-Pagans: Friendship and Love in the Rupert Brooke Circle
(London: Macmillan, 1987), p. 69 and 230.

11
Frances Garnett, interview, Cambridge, 31 May 2008.

12
DG, Journal 1914–18, entry for Tuesday [19 January 1915] [Northwestern].

13
AVG,
Deceived with Kindness
(Pimlico edition with new preface, 1995), p. viii.

14
Marler,
Bloomsbury Pie
, p. 238.

15
DG,
Flowers
, p. 19.

16
John Sutherland,
Stephen Spender: The Authorized Biography
(London: Viking, 2004; Penguin 2005), p. 2.

A Note on the Author

Sarah Knights has an MA in Life Writing and a PhD from the celebrated School of Creative Writing and Literature at the University of East Anglia. She lives in north Norfolk. This is her first biography.

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