Edward Garnett and Arnold Bennett: The Publisher's Reader and a Budding Novelist.
Four hitherto unpublished letters from Edward Garnett (1868–1936) to Arnold Bennett (1867–1931), dated 26 February and 6 March 1902, and 27 November and 29 December 1908, throw light on Garnett's perspicuity as a publisher's reader for Duckworth and on the earliest reactions to Anna of the Five Town...
| Publicado en: | Neophilologus Vol. 108; no. 3; pp. 377 - 396 |
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