Garnett, David

Japanese: ガーネット（英語表記）Garnett， David

Born: March 9, 1892, Brighton
[Died] 17 February 1981. Moncook, France. British novelist. Son of E. Garnett. Studied botany at university, and worked for a refugee relief organisation during World War I. Became famous for his fantastic novel Lady into Fox (1922), which won the Hawthornden Prize and the James Tate Black Memorial Award. Other fantastic works include A Man in the Zoo (24) and The Grasshoppers Come (31). He also wrote an autobiography and compiled the letters of TE Lawrence.

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Garnett, Richard

Born: 27 February 1835, Lichfield
[died] April 13, 1906, London. British author and bibliographer. He worked at the British Museum library, where he was head of the library (1890-99). His works include poetry collections, biographies of Carlyle and Milton, and a large work co-authored with E. Gosse, An Illustrated Record of English Literature (1903).

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Garnett, Edward

Born: 1868, London
[Died] February 21, 1937. London. British critic. Second son of R. Garnett. As an advisor to a publishing house, he introduced such writers as Conrad, Galsworthy, and DH Lawrence to the literary world. He edited Conrad's collection of letters. His wife, Constance (1861-1946), was known as a translator of Russian literature.

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Garnet, Henry Highland

[Born] 1815
[Died] February 13, 1882.
A Presbyterian minister in the United States. Born a slave and educated at the Oneida Community School. Famous as an anti-slavery speaker. A leading abolitionist before the advent of F. Douglas. Appointed ambassador to Liberia in 1881.

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Japanese:

[生]1892.3.9. ブライトン
[没]1981.2.17. フランス，モンクック
イギリスの小説家。 E.ガーネットの息子。大学で植物学を学び，第1次世界大戦中は難民救済機関に勤務。幻想的な小説『狐になった奥様』 Lady into Fox (1922) で有名になり，ホーソンデン賞，ジェームズ・テート・ブラック記念賞を受けた。『動物園の男』A Man in the Zoo (24) ，『いなごの襲来』 The Grasshoppers Come (31) など同種のファンタスティックな作品があり，ほかに自伝，T.E.ロレンスの書簡集編纂など。

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Garnett， Richard

[生]1835.2.27. リッチフィールド
[没]1906.4.13. ロンドン
イギリスの作家，書誌学者。大英博物館図書部に勤め，同部長 (1890～99) 。詩集やカーライル伝，ミルトン伝などのほか，E.ゴスとの共著『図説イギリス文学史』 An Illustrated Record of English Literature (1903) の大著がある。