Edward Garnett

Edward William Garnett ( 1868 - 1937 ) was an English writer, critic and publisher's editor. He was the son of Richard Garnett (1835-1906), a writer and librarian with the British Museum . His wife Constance Garnett was a well-known translator of Russian literature. They married on August 31, 1889. The resulting son David Garnett , who was born on March 9, 1892, also became a writer.

Life

Garnett had only a few years of institutional education at the City of London School , which he left at the age of 16. He continued his education through intensive reading and over time acquired a reputation for having a good feel for contemporary literature. Its literary importance is largely due to the fact that it encouraged contemporary writers. Garnett's authors include Joseph Conrad , DH Lawrence , Dorothy Richardson , Henry Green, and EM Forster , among others . Henry Green first met Garnett in 1925 and experienced Garnett's revision of his novel Blindness as an almost magical intervention. Thanks to Garnett's help, he found a publisher for his first work and, at his suggestion, completely revised the last chapter of this novel.

Garnett similarly supported Joseph Conrad in 1898 and Ford Madox Ford , with whom he worked closely in the early 20th century. Garnett was also friends with DH Lawrence and played a role in the publication of the writings of TE Lawrence . On the other hand, he overlooked the qualities of James Joyce's work A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and in 1915 refused to bring it out with Duckworth. Garnett, however, was a sponsor of John Galsworthy . The book The Man of Property of the Forsyte Saga is dedicated to Garnett. Garnett also sponsored the American authors Stephen Crane and Robert Frost .

Own works

• An Imaged World (1894)
• The Art of Winnifred Matthews (1902)
• The Breaking Point, a Censured Play. With Preface and a Letter to the Censor (1907)
• Hogarth (1911)
• Tolstoy: His Life and Writings (1914)
• Turgenev (1917), biography
• Papa's War and Other Satires (1918)
• Friday Nights; Literary Criticisms and Appreciations (1922)
• Letters from WH Hudson , 1901-1922 (1923), editor
• Letters from Joseph Conrad 1895-1924 (1928), editor
• The trial of Jeanne d'Arc and other plays (1931)
• Letters from John Galsworthy 1900-1932 (1934), editor
• Edward Thomas: A selection of letters to Edward Garnett

literature

• Jeremy Treglown: Romancing. The Life and Work of Henry Green . Random House, New York 2000, ISBN 0-679-43303-1
• Helen Smith: The uncommon reader: a life of Edward Garnett , New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017, ISBN 978-0-374-28112-0

Single receipts

1. ↑ Treglown: Romancing. The Life and Work of Henry Green . P.56.