Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin.
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Lytton Strachey
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Standard Name: Strachey, Lytton
Used Form: (Giles) Lytton Strachey
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Isabella Beeton | The question of how to understand IB
and her somewhat tenuous relationship to her famous book remains. Lytton Strachey
hoped to write a biography of her in 1908, but found the materials wanting. By 1922... |
| Occupation | Dorothy Brett | After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB
became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's most famous brother was (Giles) Lytton Strachey
(1880-1932), author and Bloomsbury Group member, whose works include Eminent Victorians (1918), Queen Victoria (1921), and Elizabeth and Essex (1928). |
| Residence | Dorothy Bussy | The future Dorothy Bussy spent some of her early childhood at Stowey House on Clapham Common. She also lived with her family at Simla in India for several years: in 1867 to 1870, and... |
| Occupation | Dorothy Bussy | Dorothy Strachey also tutored her brother Lytton
in English, History, and French for several months in 1897, after he left Leamington College
. |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Bussy | La Souco was visited regularly by all of their Bloomsbury Group friends, among them Lytton
and the other Strachey siblings, the Vanessa
and Clive Bell
, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, John Maynard Keynes
and... |
| Travel | Dorothy Bussy | Dorothy Strachey (later DB
) and her brother Lytton Strachey
left England for an extended trip to Gibraltar and Egypt. Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin. 73-8 |
| Travel | Dorothy Bussy | |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Butts | In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey
, Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol. 5 , No. 2, pp. 32-45. 34 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Carrington rejected the offer, and she and Gertler did not begin their physical affair until early 1917. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 35, 52, 111 |
| Cultural formation | Dora Carrington | Here, Morrell
and another guest, writer Aldous Huxley
(who were both friends of and loyal to Carrington's admirer Mark Gertler
), confronted Carrington about her reluctance to give up her virginity. She described the episode... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC
as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same... |
| Occupation | Dora Carrington | Carrington painted the costumes for Lytton Strachey
's first staged play, The Son of Heaven, shown at the Scala Theatre
in 1925. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 130 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Carrington's husband then moved in officially with Carrington and Lytton Strachey
. Extramarital affairs of the parties to this unusual marriage had begun by March 1922, yet Carrington and Partridge remained married for the rest... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John
(wife of Augustus John
, and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann
, and Julia Strachey |
Timeline
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
1918: Two years after her best-known portrait of...
Building item
1918
Two years after her best-known portrait of Lytton Strachey
, Carrington
(Dora Carrington) painted another portrait of him, sitting in a deck-chair in the garden at Tidmarsh Mill, where they lived.
5 February 2004: Frances Partridge, diarist, memoirist, and...
Women writers item
5 February 2004
Frances Partridge
, diarist, memoirist, and the longest-surviving member of the Bloomsbury group, died at the age of very nearly a hundred and four.
Texts
Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace, 1921.
Strachey, Lytton. The Shorter Strachey. Editors Holroyd, Michael and Paul Levy, Oxford University Press, 1980.