author
Richard Garnett
1835–1906
A lifelong British Museum librarian with a wide range of interests, he wrote biography, criticism, poetry, and imaginative tales. His books carry the curiosity of a scholar and the charm of someone who clearly loved literature.
7 Audiobooks
The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
by Richard Garnett
William Blake, Painter and Poet
by Richard Garnett
Life of John Milton
by Richard Garnett
Tennyson
by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton, Richard Garnett
Essays in Librarianship and Bibliography
by Richard Garnett
A history of Italian literature
by Richard Garnett
The Age of Dryden
by Richard Garnett
About the author
Born in Lichfield, England, in 1835, Richard Garnett spent almost all his working life at the British Museum. He began there as a teenager and eventually became Keeper of Printed Books, a senior post he held until his retirement in 1899. Alongside his museum work, he built a reputation as a learned and versatile man of letters.
Garnett wrote across several genres, including biography, essays, poetry, and short fiction. He is especially remembered for literary studies and lives of major writers, as well as for bringing unusual breadth of knowledge to everything he wrote. Readers often find in his work both deep reading and a light, engaging touch.
He died in London in 1906. Though best known in his own day as a scholar and librarian, he also left behind imaginative writing that still appeals to readers interested in the literary world of the late Victorian period.