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Amaryllis Garnett

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and Mark Lancaster took Garnett and her two sisters, all in long dresses, out to a club, where they danced together, while the men watched. A few days later, while suffering from deep depression, Garnett drowned in the river at Chelsea. It was possible that the death was accidental, but the Garnett
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for her, which for White became the beginning of a new career as a children's writer. A biographer of White notes that in the book "Children are never told that their elders are better than they are or taught Algebra, just Oeconomy, Natural History, and other subjects dealing with life, a situation
222:, where Amaryllis arrived at the age of eleven. They made few friends there, but took leading parts in school plays and were the most creative pupils. Meanwhile, at home there was a farm, with a herd of Jersey cows, an orchard, a swimming pool, sculptures, and a 236:, when a reviewer commented "Amaryllis Garnett, as the Leader of the Chorus, made one listen to what sounded uncannily like Eliot-inspired reflection, not to admire its sonority but to unravel its philosophical implications." 313:
family believed suicide more likely, and Angelica Garnett told Plante that she had "not been a good mother". Garnett left behind a diary, which remains unpublished.
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In her biography of Duncan Grant of 1997, Frances Spalding gives the view that "Amaryllis was a rare combination of character, imagination and friendliness."
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gave her height as 5 feet 8 inches and her eye colour as blue. Her mother described her as "very beautiful and deeply intelligent". In 1969, according to
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Register of Deaths for Westminster Registration District, vol. 5E (April/June 1973), p. 1,908: GARNETT, Amaryllis Virginia
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The Garnetts had four daughters, who called their parents "Angelica" and "Bunny" and had an unconventional childhood.
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In her late twenties, Garnett was living on a houseboat on the River Thames, moored by
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T. H. White and the Matter of Britain: A Literary Overview
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which would doubtless have delighted Amaryllis Garnett."
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Register of Births for St Pancras Registration District
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Portrait of Amaryllis Garnett , 1958, by Duncan Grant
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Huntingdon school play – Amaryllis Garnett as Queen
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As an actress, she was taken up by 194:Cranborne Chase School, main building 558: 507:, Issue 131, Part 3 (1973), p. 1,946 364: 362: 442:Encore: The Review of World Theatre 266:, who found her a part in his film 13: 570: 14: 730: 630: 359: 600:Frances Partridge: the Biography 614: 605: 592: 549: 540: 531: 498: 481: 472: 459: 206:While the family was living at 146:, making Woolf her great-aunt. 719:People from St Pancras, London 684:20th-century English actresses 611:Spalding (1997), pp. viii, 536 447: 435: 422: 413: 400: 384: 346: 337: 153:, a publisher and writer, and 1: 308:On an afternoon in May 1973, 155:Constance Garnett (née Black) 622:Bivar na corte de Bloomsbury 584:Becoming a Londoner: A Diary 201: 7: 602:(Hachette UK, 2009), p. 200 586:(A. & C. Black, 2013), 419:Kellman (1989), pp. 769–777 373:"Angelica Garnett obituary" 352:"Garnett, Amaryllis V." in 319: 16:English actress and diarist 10: 735: 704:Unsolved deaths in England 282:, she was much admired by 258:. 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St Pancras, London
River Thames
Chelsea
David Garnett
Angelica Bell
Henrietta Garnett
St Pancras, London
David
Angelica Garnett
Duncan Grant
Vanessa Bell
Virginia Woolf
Edward Garnett
Constance Garnett (née Black)
Richard Garnett
Leslie Stephen
Julia Duckworth
Julia Margaret Cameron
T. H. White
Mistress Masham's Repose

Hilton Hall
St Ives
Henrietta
Huntingdon Grammar School
dovehouse
Cranborne Chase School
Medea
ITV Play of the Week
John Mortimer

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