Born Edward William Garnett. English writer and renowned literary editor. As a reader and editor for T. Fisher Unwin, Gerald Duckworth and Jonathan Cape, Garnett was a mentor to and instrumental in the publishing early on of writings by: Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Liam O'Flaherty, H.E. Bates and others.
For a definitive biography of Edward Garnett see Helen Smith's An Uncommon Reader; a Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2017)
A brief but important memoir of Edward by H.E. Bates was published in London by Max Parrish in 1950. The title is: Edward Garnett, with eight plates in photogravure, three illustrations in line.
Edward died of a heart attack at 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3, a home he maintained in London for decades and the place where he did most of his reading and met with writers and others.
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Results of an archival search for Edward Garnett performed by a Chapel attendant at Golders Green Crematorium, October 2021:
Cremation Number: 38046
Address: 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3
Occupation: Publishing
Died: 19/2/1937
Cremated: 23/2/1937
Funeral Directors: Ashtons
Ashes: Ashes were collected by the Funeral Director
Applicant: David Garrett
For a definitive biography of Edward Garnett see Helen Smith's An Uncommon Reader; a Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2017)
A brief but important memoir of Edward by H.E. Bates was published in London by Max Parrish in 1950. The title is: Edward Garnett, with eight plates in photogravure, three illustrations in line.
Edward died of a heart attack at 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3, a home he maintained in London for decades and the place where he did most of his reading and met with writers and others.
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Results of an archival search for Edward Garnett performed by a Chapel attendant at Golders Green Crematorium, October 2021:
Cremation Number: 38046
Address: 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3
Occupation: Publishing
Died: 19/2/1937
Cremated: 23/2/1937
Funeral Directors: Ashtons
Ashes: Ashes were collected by the Funeral Director
Applicant: David Garrett
Born Edward William Garnett. English writer and renowned literary editor. As a reader and editor for T. Fisher Unwin, Gerald Duckworth and Jonathan Cape, Garnett was a mentor to and instrumental in the publishing early on of writings by: Joseph Conrad, William Butler Yeats, Somerset Maugham, E.M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, D.H. Lawrence, T.E. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Liam O'Flaherty, H.E. Bates and others.
For a definitive biography of Edward Garnett see Helen Smith's An Uncommon Reader; a Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2017)
A brief but important memoir of Edward by H.E. Bates was published in London by Max Parrish in 1950. The title is: Edward Garnett, with eight plates in photogravure, three illustrations in line.
Edward died of a heart attack at 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3, a home he maintained in London for decades and the place where he did most of his reading and met with writers and others.
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Results of an archival search for Edward Garnett performed by a Chapel attendant at Golders Green Crematorium, October 2021:
Cremation Number: 38046
Address: 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3
Occupation: Publishing
Died: 19/2/1937
Cremated: 23/2/1937
Funeral Directors: Ashtons
Ashes: Ashes were collected by the Funeral Director
Applicant: David Garrett
For a definitive biography of Edward Garnett see Helen Smith's An Uncommon Reader; a Life of Edward Garnett, Mentor and Editor of Literary Genius (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2017)
A brief but important memoir of Edward by H.E. Bates was published in London by Max Parrish in 1950. The title is: Edward Garnett, with eight plates in photogravure, three illustrations in line.
Edward died of a heart attack at 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3, a home he maintained in London for decades and the place where he did most of his reading and met with writers and others.
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Results of an archival search for Edward Garnett performed by a Chapel attendant at Golders Green Crematorium, October 2021:
Cremation Number: 38046
Address: 19 Pond Place, Chelsea SW3
Occupation: Publishing
Died: 19/2/1937
Cremated: 23/2/1937
Funeral Directors: Ashtons
Ashes: Ashes were collected by the Funeral Director
Applicant: David Garrett
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