Gretchen Gerzina

Gretchen Gerzina notes that Roger Fry does not mention Carrington in his art criticism. Feeling more affinity with Chelsea's art scene than Bloomsbury's, Carrington suspected in 1927 that Fry thought her decorative...

Reading Carrington's unpublished papers, biographer Gretchen Gerzina notes her erotic attraction to JS . However, the women remained friends, not lovers. Carrington painted Strachey's portrait in 1928; Strachey wrote a character study of Carrington...

Also at this time Carrington developed negative feelings about her physical self. She was clumsy and overweight as a child; because of this her siblings called her Dumpty, and she saw herself as fat...

The male protagonist, James Murdoch, an awkward and rough Lancashire factory owner, is considered by Gretchen Gerzina to be an uncanny prefiguration of Thomas Hardy 's Henchard, Mayor of Casterbridge (in his novel of 1886).

Though Cedric's nickname for his mother is, famously, Dearest, he is anything but a mother's boy in the accepted sense of the term, being streetwise and a regular mixer on equal terms with people...

DC wrote a poem at the age of nine about a beggar named Sin which, according to her biographer Gretchen Gerzina , revealed both her interest in what people were called, and . ....

A selection of DC 's writings, titled Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, was edited by David Garnett and published by Jonathan Cape ; it was an astonishing success, according to biographer Gretchen Gerzina