English writer and publisher David “Bunny” Garnett was BOTD in 1892. Born in Brighton to a literary family, he published stories from his early teens. He moved with his mother to London in 1905, studying zoology and botany at Imperial College London. A conscientious objector during World War One, he and his lover Duncan Grant moved to Sussex to work on fruit farms, eventually settling at Charleston House with Grant’s other lover, the painter Vanessa Bell. In 1918, he was present at the birth of Bell and Grant’s daughter Angelica, later writing to a friend that he might marry her. Through Grant, he became associated with the Bloomsbury Group. His first novel, a racy potboiler titled Dope Darling: A Story of Cocaine, was published in 1918 under the pseudonym Leda Burke. He gained critical acclaim with his 1922 novel Lady into Fox, published under his own name and winning the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Garnett married artist Rachel Marshall in 1923, with whom he had two children, and ran a bookshop in London with his friend and sometime lover Francis Birrell. After Marshall’s death in 1940, he made true on his prediction and married Angelica, then aged 24, without telling her he had been Grant’s lover. They moved to Hilton Hall in Cambridgeshire where he continued to write, raising four daughters and a herd of Jersey cows. Notable works include the edited letters of his friend T. E. Lawrence, and his 1955 novel Aspects of Love, a love story between a middle-aged man and his former lover’s much younger daughter. He and Angelica separated in 1967, and he moved to France, living there until his death in 1981, aged 88. In 1984, Angelica published a memoir, Deceived with Kindness, describing the trauma of Garnett’s deceit and their dysfunctional marriage. Aspects of Love was adapted into a musical in 1989 by Andrew Lloyd-Webber.