Ray Strachey

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Standard Name: Strachey, Ray
Birth Name: Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe
Nickname: Ray
Married Name: Rachel Mary Strachey
Though RS published three novels between 1907 and 1927 (and a volume of history in collaboration with her husband ), most of her writing is non-fictional and reflects her deep commitment to women's suffrage, women's employment, and other political issues. Her nonfiction includes biographies of suffrage leaders, countless essays and broadcasts, and The Cause, an excellent history of the women's movement, for which she is best remembered.
Chapman, Wayne K., and Janet M. Manson, editors. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education. Pace University Press.
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Halpern, Barbara Strachey. “Ray Strachey--A Memoir”. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education, edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Janet M. Manson, Pace University Press, pp. 77-86.
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Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Ray Strachey wearing a dark jacket over a white dress shirt with bow tie and two vertical rows of dark buttons. Her dark hair is piled behind her head.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Wealth and Poverty Dorothy Bussy
Janie Bussy wrote to Quentin Bell that they sometimes subsisted on bread and raisins. DB sent a report to Ray Strachey : clothes literally in rags and ribbons. No soap. . . . The gas...
Travel Mary Agnes Hamilton
Ignoring dire warnings that she ought to take pistols, against perilous dogs; thick underclothing, against pervasive insect life; remedies, of dubious efficacy, against the heat,
Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape.
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she and her holiday companion, Ray Strachey , travelled...
Travel Amabel Williams-Ellis
From the mid-1920s, AWE and her family took both short and extended sailing trips to such places as North Wales, Scotland, France, and later, Australia, New Zealand, and the Caribbean...
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
The following year, however, SP demonstrated diligent care for her mother's reputation: she was outraged by one paragraph in Ray Strachey 's The Cause. Though it expressed gratitude and admiration for Emmeline Pankhurst ...
Textual Production Sylvia Pankhurst
Her chief motive for writing it was financial: as a new mother and family breadwinner she needed such a project. Longman had approached her in 1928 about writing a history of the suffrage movement; they...
Reception Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Her suspicions proved well-grounded: this second novel was not noticed at all. She appears to have taken the response to heart, as no further novels appeared. Biographer Ray Strachey reports: all traces of this novel...
Publishing Florence Nightingale
She revised Cassandra many times, most extensively after her return from the Crimea. Its printing in 1860 was private, and it did not appear for public consumption until 1928, when Ray Strachey included part...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
Like her patriotic colleagues Millicent Garrett Fawcett , Barbara Bodichon , and Ray Strachey , ER was a strong believer in women's fundamental responsibilities as citizens, in their commitment to improving the state despite misogynistic...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
That same month, members of ER 's group, including Ray Strachey , testified before the Joint Select Committee arranged to discuss Indian governance.
Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press.
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politics Virginia Woolf
Each meeting consisted of dinner, followed by an address from a speaker, followed by discussion. Speakers included E. M. Forster , Virginia's brother Adrian , and Ray Strachey . About a dozen working-class women attended...
Material Conditions of Writing Millicent Garrett Fawcett
MGF became a fluent, effective, impassive, and unemotional lecturer. Although she hated public appearances, and felt sick beforehand, she performed so well that her audience supposed her to be enjoying herself. Having drafted a speech...
Literary responses Lydia Becker
Ray Strachey , in her history of the feminist movement, summarizes LB 's enormous impact: She combined political sagacity with undeviating enthusiasm, and she was therefore widely trusted and respected, in spite of a certain...
Literary responses Millicent Garrett Fawcett
Ray Strachey praises MGF 's biography of Molesworth as one of the most interesting of her books.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray.
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Strachey explains that Molesworth had championed the cause of co-operation with the British colonies in their efforts...
Literary responses Florence Nightingale
John Stuart Mill , who called Cassandra a cri du coeur,
Kahane, Claire. “The Aesthetic Politics of Rage”. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol.
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uses its feminist theories in The Subjection of Women. Virginia Woolf quotes from it in A Room of One's Own.
Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice.
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Literary responses Florence Nightingale
Ray Strachey called this book very long, and further claimed that its arrangement is very confused . . . it is a highly wearisome book to read. It is full of repetitions, and of...

Timeline

15 April 1909: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...

Building item

15 April 1909

The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies , began weekly publication in Manchester.

26 July 1913: The National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies...

National or international item

26 July 1913

The National Union of Women's Suffrage SocietiesWomen's Pilgrimage culminated in London with a meeting in Hyde Park.

April 1935-June 1936: Stephen King-Hall published a children's...

Writing climate item

April 1935-June 1936

Stephen King-Hall published a children'sjournal called Mine, A Magazine for All who are Young.

Texts

Strachey, Ray. A Quaker Grandmother, Hannah Whitall Smith. Fleming H. Revell Company, 1914.
Strachey, Ray. Careers and Openings for Women. Faber and Faber, 1935.
Strachey, Ray. Frances Willard: Her Life and Work. T. Fisher Unwin, 1912.
Strachey, Ray. Marching On. Jonathan Cape, 1923.
Strachey, Ray. Millicent Garrett Fawcett. J. Murray, 1931.
Strachey, Ray, editor. Our Freedom and Its Results. Leonard and Virginia Woolf, 1936.
Strachey, Ray, editor. Religious Fanaticism. Faber and Gwyer, 1928.
Strachey, Ray. Shaken by the Wind: A Story of Fanaticism. Faber and Gwyer, 1927.
Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. G. Bell and Sons, 1928.
Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago, 1978.
Strachey, Ray. The World at Eighteen. T. Fisher Unwin, 1907.
Strachey, Ray. Women’s Suffrage and Women’s Service. London and National Society for Women’s Service, 1927.