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Henrietta Garnett was born on 15 May, 1945, is an English writer (1945–2019). Discover Henrietta Garnett's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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Who Is Henrietta Garnett's Husband?

Her husband is Burgo Partridge (1962–63, his death) John Couper John Baker

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Parents David Garnett (father)Angelica Garnett (mother)
Husband Burgo Partridge (1962–63, his death) John Couper John Baker
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1945

Henrietta Catherine Garnett (15 May 19454 September 2019 ) was an English writer.

Garnett was the second of the four daughters of David and Angelica Garnett.

Her father was a writer.

Her mother, the daughter of Vanessa Bell and the painter Duncan Grant, and a niece of the writer Virginia Woolf, was an artist.

The four sisters had an unconventional childhood.

Growing up at Hilton Hall, near St Ives in Huntingdonshire, Henrietta and her sisters Amaryllis, Nerissa, and Fanny were all sent to the co-educational Huntingdon Grammar School.

They took leading parts in school plays and were creative.

At home, they had a farm, with cows, an orchard, a swimming pool, and sculptures.

Garnett also spent holidays at her grandparents' Charleston Farmhouse, sometimes sitting for its painters.

She later wrote of Charleston "It was an extraordinary treasure chest overflowing with familiar curiosities, beauty, ideas, people and jokes."

Garnett later claimed that after the age of ten she had always been in love.

She wanted to become an actress and blamed her failure to do so on a lack of formal education and mental discipline.

1962

In 1962, aged only seventeen and already pregnant, Henrietta married Burgo Partridge.

Ten years older than her, he was the son of Ralph and Frances Partridge.

His mother's sister, Ray Marshall, had been the first wife of Henrietta's father, David Garnett.

1963

Burgo Partridge died suddenly of heart failure on 7 September 1963, three weeks after the birth of their daughter Sophie Vanessa, leaving his wife a widow at the age of eighteen.

Now a single mother, Henrietta was swept into the hedonistic life of the swinging Sixties.

After a time of nightclubs in Marbella, she joined a group led by Mark Palmer that travelled around England in a convoy of horse-drawn caravans, in support of love and peace, a group later called by Garnett "chequebook hippies".

She had several boyfriends and married twice more, her second husband being an art dealer, John Couper, and her third John Baker, a writer she met on a train.

This led to her appearing in a BBC television 40 Minutes programme on the topic of love at first sight.

Garnett's cousin Virginia Nicholson later recalled that "Everything about her, from the overpowering scent of Guerlain's L'Heure Bleue over breakfast, to the limitless Gauloises habit; from her deft skill with rough-puff pastry, to her passion for the Victorian novel – exuded fascination."

1977

In 1977, Garnett threw herself off a hotel roof in London, a suicide attempt which left her with severe injuries.

A few years later, she went to live with Mark Divall, a former gardener at Charleston, in Normandy, and later in Provence.

1986

Her only novel, Family Skeletons, was published in 1986.

About early romance, its storyline included incest and suicide, and in the light of the author's Bloomsbury background, readers looked for parallels with real life.

2001

In 2001, she returned to live in England, acquiring a small house in Chelsea, and then a cottage in Sussex.

2004

In 2004, she published Anny: A Life of Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, a biography of William Makepeace Thackeray's daughter Anne Ritchie, who was a sister-in-law of Henrietta Garnett's great-grandfather Leslie Stephen, converted into Mrs Hilberry in her great aunt Virginia Woolf's Night and Day.

2012

This book was followed by Wives and Stunners (2012), about the female partners, mistresses, and models of the pre-Raphaelite artists.

Garnett died of pancreatic cancer, aged 74.

An obituary in The Guardian said of her

"None of life's vicissitudes could dent Henrietta's bewitching beauty. She was droll, mischievous and uninhibited. She could be exasperating – a menace, even, after one glass too many of red wine – but she was also deeply affectionate and intensely loyal. Quiet courage was perhaps her most impressive quality, a stoical refusal to succumb to self-pity which she maintained till the end."