Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906
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Epithet: LLD, Keeper of Printed Books British Museum
British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000835.0x00015c
English librarian.
From the description of Autograph letter signed : British Museum, to F.J. Dreer, 1892 Jan. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269566963
Librarian of the British Museum.
From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, 1889 Oct. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863985
From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, [no year] Jan. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863987
From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to W.A. Knight, 1905 Mar. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863999
From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to W.A. Knight, 1889 Sept 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863981
From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to W.A. Knight, 1899 Aug. 9. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863990
From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to W.A. Knight, 1905 Jan. 26. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863996
From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to W.A. Knight, 1905 Dec. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864003
From the description of Autograph postcard signed : Princetown, to W.A. Knight, [1896] Aug. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864011
From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to W.A. Knight, 1900 Feb. 8. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270863993
From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to W.A. Knight, [no year] Oct. 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864008
From the description of Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to W.A. Knight, [n.d.] "Tuesday." (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864005
Author and museum employee.
From the description of Letters from Richard Garnett [manuscript] 1881-92. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647936206
Richard Garnett was the keeper of printed books in the British Museum. He also wrote biographies of Milton, Carlyle, Emerson, and Coleridge, as well as several volumes of original and translated verse.
From the description of Letters to W. Streatfeild and John Lane, 1893-1898. (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 228721113
Richard Garnett (1835-1906) was an English librarian and author. Edmund Gosse (1849-1928) was an English poet and critic.
From the description of Richard Garnett and Sir Edmund Gosse letters 1896. (Florida State University). WorldCat record id: 45225937
Richard Garnett (1835–1906) worked at the British Museum for 50 years, and became Keeper of Printed Books; he was the author of many biographies, histories of Italian and English literature, verse translations of European poetry, and a poet in his own right.
His son, Edward (1868–1937), was a publisher's editor for over 50 years. He recognized the literary talents of such authors as Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Sinclair Lewis and Ernest Hemingway, and was able to get their work published in England. Edward Garnett was also the friend and advisor of such writers as Joseph Conrad, W.H. Hudson, John Galsworthy, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Davies, and T.E. Lawrence.
David Garnett (1892–1981), Edward's son, became an author and wrote eleven novels as well as his autobiography; he edited the letters of T.E. Lawrence and the novels of Thomas Love Peacock. He and Francis Birrell started a bookshop; he helped found the Nonesuch Press and the publishing firm of Rupert Hart-Davis.
From the guide to the Garnett Family Papers, 1784-2005, 1814-1981, (Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections)
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Subjects:
- Authors, English
- Bookplates
- Literature, Modern
Occupations:
- Collector
Places:
- Mauritius, Indian Ocean (as recorded)
- Mexico, Central America (as recorded)
- Sebastopol, the Crimea (as recorded)
- New Zealand, Australia (as recorded)
- Hollingbury, Sussex (as recorded)
- Nevis, West Indies (as recorded)
- Norway, Europe (as recorded)
- Acireale, Sicily (as recorded)
- Newland, Gloucestershire (as recorded)
- Persia, Asia Minor (as recorded)
- Port Royal, Jamaica (as recorded)
- Tientsin, China (as recorded)
- St Briavels, Gloucestershire (as recorded)
- Dean, Forest of, Gloucestershire (as recorded)
- Paris, France (as recorded)
- Salerno, Campania (as recorded)
- Valetta, Malta (as recorded)
- Chemnitz, Germany (as recorded)
