Lytton Strachey

As part of a suicide watch around Carrington organized by her friends, Virginia and Leonard Woolf visited her at Ham Spray on 10 March. Virginia later wrote in her diary: She burst into tears &...

Lytton Strachey , biographer and essayist, died of cancer at Ham Spray near Hungerford, Berkshire.

She was very pleased with her model and with her rendering: I was completely overcome by her grandeur, and wit. I am painting her against the bookcase sitting full length in a chair, in a...

DC made her first suicide attempt on the morning of Lytton Strachey 's death: she locked herself in her garage and attempted carbon monoxide poisoning, but was discovered when her household awoke.

She called this her only successful work because her companion Lytton Stracheyliked it.

Distraught by the recent death of her dearest companion, Lytton Strachey , DC made a second suicide attempt. This time she shot herself, and died.

At Ham Spray in 1928, DC depicted Adam and Eve in a mosaic around Lytton Strachey 's bedroom fireplace; this image was later replaced with Boris Anrep 's painted hermaphrodite (which according to critic Jane Hill

Carrington created her best known painting, a portrait of her beloved companion , Lytton Strachey.

Carrington's diaries incorporate lived moments restructured as short stories, some titled (A Short Love Affaire or The Danish Grave and The Reverse of the Medal, for instance); poetry (On a Picture of...

Carrington painted Tidmarsh Mill, inspired by the house she had recently moved into with author Lytton Strachey ; critic Mary Ann Caws calls the work Carrington's unchallenged masterpiece.

Beginning in 1918, Carrington and Lytton Strachey composed poems for each other on their respective birthdays.

Writing as Mopsa, DC won two guineas in a contest run by the weekend Observer: she entered a whimsical biographical essay on her companion Lytton Strachey , by then famous as an iconoclastic biographer.

DC is known predominantly for her personal relationships with writer Lytton Strachey and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she produced much striking work—visual and literary—herself. André Derain and Simon Bussy gave her...

DC was born into a middle-class family with primarily English roots, whose strict moral and religious codes she rejected in favour of a more socially relaxed or bohemian painting and writing life in London and...

Carrington rejected the offer, and she and Gertler did not begin their physical affair until early 1917. This was short-lived: their relationship ended shortly after 14 February 1918, when a furiously jealous...