Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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...
Oliver Strachey
, like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company
. His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe
, Newnham College
graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for...
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...
death
Millicent Garrett Fawcett
She commissioned Ray Strachey
, her life-long friend, to be her official biographer; but a feminist of a later generation, Ann Oakley
, has speculated that she probably required from Strachey discretion and even self-censorship...
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...
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...
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...
Friends, Associates
Mary Agnes Hamilton
MAH
's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names...
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...
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...
Kahane, Claire. “The Aesthetic Politics of Rage”. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, Vol.
3
, No. 1, pp. 19-31.
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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...
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...
Timeline
15 April 1909: The Common Cause, the official organ of the...