Editing Eden Phillpotts (section)

==Personal life==
Phillpotts was for many years the President of the [[Dartmoor Preservation Association]] and cared passionately about the conservation of Dartmoor.  He was an agnostic and a supporter of the [[Rationalist Press Association]].<ref>''"...among the honorary associates of the [Rationalist Press] Association, past and present, are distinguished names such as...Eden Phillpotts."'' Quoted in [[Harry Snell, 1st Baron Snell|Lord Snell]], ''Men, Movements And Myself'' (p. 156), J.M. Dent and Sons, 1936.</ref>

Phillpotts was a friend of [[Agatha Christie]], who was an admirer of his work and a regular visitor to his home. She dedicated her 1932 novel ''[[Peril at End House]]'' to Phillpotts, and in her autobiography, she expressed gratitude for his early advice on fiction writing and quoted some of it. [[Jorge Luis Borges]] was another Phillpotts admirer.<ref>''Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations''. University Press of Mississippi, 1998. Page 218.</ref> Borges mentioned him numerous times, wrote at least two reviews of his novels, and included him in his "Personal Library", a collection of works selected to reflect his personal literary preferences.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jorge Luis Borges Personal Library Collection|url=http://www.personallibrarieslibrary.com/2010/05/jorge-luis-borges-personal-library.html|website=personallibrarieslibrary.com|access-date=28 February 2018}}</ref>

Philpotts allegedly sexually abused his daughter Adelaide. In a 1976 interview for a book about her father, Adelaide described an incestuous "relationship" with him that she says lasted from the age of five or six until her early thirties, when he remarried. When she herself finally married at the age of 55 her father never forgave her, and never communicated with her again.<ref name=ade>James Y. Dayananda, 'Phillpotts , (Mary) Adelaide Eden (1896–1993)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49176, accessed 9 May 2017]</ref>