Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Julia Strachey
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Standard Name: Strachey, Julia
Birth Name: Julia Frances Strachey
JS
published two novels and several pieces of short fiction during her lifetime, in the mid twentieth century. Frances Partridge
writes in her introduction to JS
's memoir that when she died, after a long life centred on her vocation as a writer, it was many years since anything by her had seen the light.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
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This memoir, featuring previously unpublished creative pieces, was issued posthumously. JS
's work was praised by such contemporaries as Virginia Woolf
, but has received little critical attention, either initially or recently.
Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin, 1980.
248, 292, 373
Family and Intimate relationships
Ray Strachey
RS
's husband had a nine-year-old daughter, Julia
, from a previous marriage. He had been working for the railways in India, but was often unemployed until the First World War, when he began work...
EG
's great uncle Alexander Grant
was a popular Episcopalian preacher and wrote Sermons on Various Subjects and Occasions, published in 1800 in Dundee. Her aunt Mary Gillies
wrote for Howitt's Journal on...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rosamond Lehmann
While RL
was pregnant with their child, and even after she gave birth, her husband Wogan Philipps
continued his affair with Julia Strachey
, which he had told Rosamond he had ended.
Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang, 1989.
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Friends, Associates
Dora Carrington
Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John
(wife of Augustus John
, and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann
, and Julia Strachey
Friends, Associates
Virginia Woolf
Since VW
moved in a variety of social circles, her range of literary acquaintance was very wide. Her associates included such established, celebrated writers as Thomas Hardy and Henry James
, popular authors such as...
Literary responses
Dora Carrington
Her intimate friend Julia Strachey
once wrote of Carrington as a Modern Witch.
qtd. in
Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
131
Perhaps the envelope of deafening guilt, which . . . surrounded her like a cloud of loudly buzzing mosquitoes wherever...
Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
164
Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, 1994, pp. 7-9.
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Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press, 1994.
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Textual Production
Dora Carrington
Carrington took on other work for the Press
: she designed numerous paper book covers with linoleum cuts (because easier to work with and less expensive than wood); in 1921 she created the cover (with...
White, Cynthia L. Women’s Magazines 1693-1968. Michael Joseph, 1970.
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British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.
Spawls, Alice. “Does one flare or cling?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
38
, No. 9, 5 May 2016, pp. 40-2.
Texts
Strachey, Julia. Cheerful Weather for the Wedding. Hogarth Press, 1932.
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
Strachey, Julia. The Man on the Pier. John Lehmann, 1951.
Strachey, Julia. Two Short Novels: Cheerful Weather for the Wedding; and, An Integrated Man. Penguin, 1978.