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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
