Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey proposed marriage to Virginia Stephen (later VW ), then quickly retracted his proposal.

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

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...

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...