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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Family and Intimate relationships | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Amabel Strachey had a long roster of talented, accomplished relations by birth and marriage. Within her own generation her cousins or cousins by marriage included the writers Lytton Strachey
, Ray Strachey
, and Dorothy Bussy |
Family and Intimate relationships | Julia Strachey | Another aunt, Pernel Strachey
, was Principal of Newnham College
(one of Cambridge
's two colleges for women) from 1923 to 1941. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 278 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | (Joan) Pernel Strachey
(1876-1951) was Tutor, Lecturer in Modern Languages, Vice-Principal, and then from 1923 to 1941 Principal of Newnham College
. She hosted Virginia Woolf
in October 1928 when Woolf addressed the Newnham Arts Society |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | Simon Bussy
, Dorothy's future husband, was born Albert Bussy
in 1870, at Dole in the Jura, which he left in 1886. He arrived in Paris in 1896, where he studied at the Académie Carmen |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | Pernel Strachey
was then Principal of Newnham. EJ
, as secretary of the college literary society, was privileged to invite Edith Sitwell
to address the society, and to meet and entertain the great poet. Jenkins, Elizabeth. The View from Downshire Hill. Michael Johnson, 2004. 21 |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Jenkins | Having met Edith Sitwell
when she was an undergraduate (an acquaintance which she later kept up) EJ
was asked by Pernel Strachey
when she left Newnham whether she would like an invitation to Leonard
and... |
Leisure and Society | Dorothy Bussy | Pontigny was a regular gathering place of European and British intellectuals. Pernel
and Pippa Strachey
also attended sessions there during the summer of 1922, though possibly not at the same time as DB
. |
Occupation | Dorothy Bussy | After Marie Souvestre
moved Les Ruches
to England (renaming it Allenswood
and locating it in Wimbledon Park, near London), Dorothy Strachey became one of her staff at this new incarnation of her own old... |
politics | Virginia Woolf | Virginia's work consisted mainly of addressing envelopes, and she committed herself only to some weeks of this at the beginning and end of 1910. But she was also associated with the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies |
Textual Production | Virginia Woolf | She travelled with Vanessa
and Angelica Bell
to Cambridge, where she stayed with Pernel Strachey
, Principal of Newnham. |
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