'An Extraordinarily Fine Thing to be Published': Thirteen Unpublished Letters from Edward Garnett to Arnold Bennett.

The present authors' "Edward Garnett and Arnold Bennett: The Publisher's Reader and a Budding Novelist" (Neophilologus 108:377–395, 2024) reveals how four previously unpublished letters from Edward Garnett (1868–1936) to Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) now in the Hugh Walpole Collection at the King's Sch...

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Published in:Neophilologus Vol. 109; no. 4; pp. 569 - 586
Main Authors: Baker, William, Henderson, Peter
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2025
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      ab: The present authors' "Edward Garnett and Arnold Bennett: The Publisher's Reader and a Budding Novelist" (Neophilologus 108:377–395, 2024) reveals how four previously unpublished letters from Edward Garnett (1868–1936) to Arnold Bennett (1867–1931) now in the Hugh Walpole Collection at the King's School Canterbury illuminate Garnett's perspicuity as a publisher's reader and provide some of the earliest responses to Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns (1902), the work which cemented Bennett's reputation as a writer of fiction. This present article transcribes and discusses thirteen additional unpublished letters from Garnett (EG) to Bennett (AB), also in the Hugh Walpole Collection. They add to our knowledge of the relationship of EG and AB and to their perspectives and attitudes to the literature they encountered. In particular there are significant references to Ivan Bunin, Henry Williamson, Malachi Whitaker and Elizabeth Madox Roberts, among others, as well as to the practicalities of publicity for books and the issue of censorship.
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