Henrietta Garnett, daughter of Angelica and David Garnett and granddaughter of Vanessa Bell, died Sept. 4 of pancreatic cancer.
She grew up at Charleston, and of it she said:
Charleston had the most powerful identity of any place that I had known. It reeked of itself: of turpentine and toast, of apples, damp walls and garden flowers. The atmosphere was one of liberty and order, and of a strength which came from its being a house in which the inhabitants were happy…
Read a tribute to her posted by her cousin, Virginia Nicholson, president of the Charleston Trust, and her obituary in The Guardian.
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