Oliver Strachey

Oliver Strachey , like a number of Strachey men, worked with the East India Company . His second wife was Rachel (Ray) Costelloe , Newnham College graduate, women's rights activist, and author, best known for...

JS took a room at the home of her father and stepmother, Oliver and Ray Strachey , who lived at 42 Gordon Square in Bloomsbury.

JS 's father, Oliver Strachey , was the sixth son of Sir Richard and Jane Maria, Lady Strachey . He attended Eton , then Balliol College, Oxford ; the family home was in London...

JS was at Brackenhurst in 1911 when her father, Oliver , married his second wife, feminist author and activist Ray Costelloe Strachey . Julia admired her new stepmother but was not close to the couple.

Ray Costelloe married Oliver Strachey , amateur musician, at Cambridge.

RS travelled to India with her sister and her husband, Oliver ; on the way back they stopped at I Tatti (the Italian estate of her mother and Berenson ), where Oliver resigned from his...

RS and her husband together wrote and published with the Clarendon Press a book of Indian history, Keigwin 's Rebellion (1683-4): an Episode in the History of Bombay.

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...