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...

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...

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...

Carrington painted the costumes for Lytton Strachey 's first staged play, The Son of Heaven, shown at the Scala Theatre in 1925.

In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey , but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis for...

Dorothy Strachey (later DB ) and her brother Lytton Strachey left England for an extended trip to Gibraltar and Egypt.

Dorothy Strachey (later DB ) holidayed in the south of France with her siblings Marjorie and Lytton Strachey .

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).

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...