Bloomsbury's Outsider (61 page)

Angelica at Butts Intake, 1940

Bunny and babies, 1946

Henrietta

Amaryllis

Fanny and Nerissa

Angelica and Bunny in the 1960s

Picture credits: all courtesy of the Estate of David Garnett and Tate Gallery Archives
.

First of all, my thanks go to the late Richard Garnett for his unstinting encouragement, for sharing his formidable knowledge and for allowing me unrestricted access to his father's papers at Hilton Hall (these now reside at Northwestern University). Although Richard read this book in draft, my only regret is that he didn't live to see it published. I am also grateful to Jane Garnett for her warm hospitality and her valuable insights into the family environment at Hilton.

Henrietta Garnett has been extremely generous in giving me access to the papers of Duncan Grant and those papers of David Garnett in her keeping. I am grateful for her illuminating conversation, her kind hospitality and unceasing encouragement and enthusiasm.

I am indebted to the late Angelica Garnett for allowing me to read her correspondence with David Garnett which is in the Archives of King's College, Cambridge. This was particularly generous given that she would inevitably feature in my account of his life. I am grateful for her kindness in allowing me to interview her and for her hospitality.

For granting interviews, allowing me to read letters in their possession (or both) I particularly thank Anne Olivier Bell,
Frances Garnett, Michael Holroyd, Stephen Keynes, Virginia Nicholson, Joan O'Donovan, the late Magouche Fielding and the late Hilary Rubinstein.

I am also grateful to the following for help in various ways: Elizabeth Belsey, Emily Bingham, Monika Buchell, Anne Chisholm, Jan Dalley, Phil Davies, Richard Denyer, Larry Edgerton, Claire Flay-Petty, Susan Fox, Edward Garnett, Oliver Garnett, Jonathan and Nicky Gathorne-Hardy, Janet Gill, Crauford and Nancy Goodwin, Olga Grlic, John Harriss, Diana Hopkins, Claire and Geoffrey Kiddy, Mr and Mrs J. Kirkwood, Nicola Lacey, Andrew Lambirth, Jawaid Luqmani, Catherine MacGowan, David Marshall, Marina Martin, Stephen Massil, David McKitterick, Neil McWilliam, J. Lawrence Mitchell, Judy Moore, Paul Morrison, Tom Morrison, Amanda O'Shea, Bill Rau, Anthony Rudolph, Elaine Shaughnessy, Ceinwen Sinclair, John Smart, Matthew Spender, Peter Stansky, Tilli Tansey, Ann Thwaite, the Lord Walpole, Norma Watt and Denis and Hazel Wilkinson. Thanks also to John Sutherland for responding so promptly to a last minute query.

I have been greatly assisted by archivists and librarians, first among them, Patricia McGuire, the Archivist at King's College Cambridge, who has been unstintingly kind and helpful during the years of my research. I also extend grateful thanks to the archivists and librarians of the following institutions: the HRHRC at Austin, Texas (Richard Workman, Jean Cannon and Kurt Johnson); the Berg Collection, New York Public Library (Isaac Gewirtz and Anne Garner); the Bodleian Library, Oxford (Colin Harris); the British Library Manuscript Rooms and Sound Archives; the University of Delaware (Iris Snyder); Imperial College Archives (Anne Barrett and Catherine Harpham); Princeton University Library (Margaret Sherry); Jean Rose of
Random House Group for permission to consult publishing records at the University of Reading Library; the University of Reading Library; Smith College Archives; the University of Sussex Library (Dorothy Sheridan); Tate Gallery Archives; the University of East Anglia Special Collections Library (Bridget Gillies); Ulster Museum (Martyn Anglesea); Wellcome Library (Richard Aspin and Sharon Messenger; with particular thanks to Sir Mark Walport for facilitating access to as yet un-catalogued material there).

Although I have been fortunate in the wealth and breadth of primary material, I am immensely grateful to those biographers and historians whose work I have consulted. In particular, Frances Spalding's biographies of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant have been invaluable. Richard Garnett's biography of his grandmother, Constance Garnett, saved me much time in researching David Garnett's forebears. Edward Garnett's biographer, Helen Smith, has been both a great ally and generous source of information.

This book began life as a doctoral thesis. I am indebted to the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council which made my doctoral research possible through the provision of a scholarship. I am grateful to my examiners, Frances Spalding and Giles Foden, for their invaluable constructive criticism. At the University of East Anglia, I owe an immeasurable debt to Jon Cook whose guidance and scholarship considerably enhanced my work.

I would also like to thank my agent Maggie Hanbury and, at Bloomsbury, Stephanie Duncan and Miranda Vaughan Jones. I have benefited enormously from their expertise and enthusiasm for the book.

Finally I thank my son Rafael and husband Tony Barnett for their forbearance during this long project. They have tolerated
my physical and mental absences and lived with David Garnett, on occasions, almost as closely as I have. Tony has not only accompanied me on research trips, but has been a constant and loving support. I thank him for all this, and for applying his intellectual scrutiny to every word I have written.

Needless to say any inaccuracies or mistakes are my own.

For permission to quote David Garnett, Constance Garnett, Edward Garnett and Nellie Heath I am indebted to the Estate of David Garnett. I am also indebted to Julian Bell and the Estate of Angelica Bell for permission to quote from her published writing and unpublished letters and to Henrietta Garnett for giving me permission to quote Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Burgo Partridge.

For other permissions to quote I gratefully acknowledge: Peter Ackroyd; Virginia Allen (Noel Olivier); Victoria Bacon (Edward Hyams); the Bertrand Russell Peace Foundation; Betty May courtesy of a family member who wishes not to be named; Anne Chisholm; the Estate of John Dreyfus; the
Financial Times
; the Executors of the Estate of Michael Fordham; Guardian News & Media Ltd (
Guardian
and
Observer
); Adrian Goodman (Ottoline Morrell); Alastair Hamilton (Hamish Hamilton); Duff Hart-Davis (Rupert Hart-Davis); Anne Harvey (Eleanor Farjeon and Herbert Farjeon); David Higham Associates Ltd (the Estates of John Lehmann and T. H. White); Michael Holroyd; Lawrence James c/o the Andrew Lownie Literary Agency; Professor Simon Keynes (Geoffrey Keynes); Paul Levy; Desmond MacCarthy (Desmond MacCarthy); Susie Medley (Francis Birrell); the Executors of the Estate of Alix Meynell; the Executors of the Estate of Francis Meynell; Paul Morrison and Tom Morrison (Barbara Mackenzie-Smith); the
New Statesman
; News Syndication (
The Times, Sunday Times
and
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); Mark
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Quotes from Olive Garnett's Diaries are property of Caroline White, Tabb House, 7 Church Street, Padstow, Cornwall; extract from
John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour
by Robert Skidelsky reprinted by permission of Peters Fraser & Dunlop [
www.petersfraserdunlop.com
] on behalf of Robert Skidelsky; the information in the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee Circular is re-used under the terms of the Open Government Licence; Judith Mackrell
Bloomsbury Ballerina
© Judith Mackrell 2008, the Orion Publishing Group, London; Jonathan Raban © Jonathan Raban c/o Aitken Alexander Associates; unpublished
writings of J.M. Keynes copyright The Provost and Scholars of King's College Cambridge 2015; the quotes from Gerald Brenan are reproduced by permission of the Estate of Gerald Brenan c/o The Hanbury Agency Ltd, 28 Moreton Street, London SW1V 2PE. All rights reserved:
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World Within World
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