Gerald Brenan

In April 1926, Carrington wrote to Gerald Brenan asking him to return the diary she had kept on her love affair with Henrietta Bingham , as she was planning to write a temps perdu, beginning...

The germ of this novel (which was known during its early composition as The Moths) is often traced to a passage VW wrote in her diary on 30 September 1926 about the mystical side...

Carrington attempted to give herself a miscarriage by riding a horse violently, and when this did not work she became depressed to a nearly suicidal degree. She had mused to Gerald Brenan in 1920...

DC maintained the longest of her sexual relationships, this one with a former soldier, Gerald Brenan .

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...

Partridge became involved with women including Valentine Dobrée and Frances Marshall (whom he later married), while Carrington began a relationship with Gerald Brenan this year.

Brenan lived at this time in the Andalusian Mountains in Spain. Carrington visited him here in 1920 and 1923, and her trips provided material for such work as Yegen landscape (1924).

She considered her relationship with Bingham , and her own complicated femaleness and sexuality, in a letter of 1925 to Gerald Brenan . I think H[enrietta] although she gave me nothing else, gave a clue...