Chapman, Wayne K., and Janet M. Manson, editors. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education. Pace University Press, 1998.
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Ray Strachey
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Standard Name: Strachey, Ray
Birth Name: Rachel Pearsall Conn Costelloe
Nickname: Ray
Married Name: Rachel Mary Strachey
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 employment, and other political issues. Her nonfiction includes biographies of suffrage leaders, countless essays and broadcasts, and The Cause, an excellent history of the women's movement, for which she is best remembered.
Halpern, Barbara Strachey. “Ray Strachey--A Memoir”. Women in the Milieu of Leonard and Virginia Woolf: Peace, Politics, and Education, edited by Wayne K. Chapman and Janet M. Manson, Pace University Press, 1998, pp. 77 -86.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Anthologization | Eleanor Rathbone | ER
contributed an essay on Changes in Public Life to Our Freedom and Its Results, a feminist anthology edited by Ray Strachey
and published by Leonard
and Virginia Woolf
. Alberti, Johanna. Eleanor Rathbone. Sage Press, 1996. 179 Pedersen, Susan. Eleanor Rathbone and the Politics of Conscience. Yale University Press, 2004. 380 |
| Cultural formation | Mary Stott | Mary's mother took her to Liberal meetings while she was still a girl. From her early twenties, when she read Ray Strachey
's The Cause, she developed her own feminist agenda. Stott, Mary. Forgetting’s No Excuse. Faber and Faber, 1973. 131 |
| death | Millicent Garrett Fawcett | She commissioned Ray Strachey
, her life-long friend, to be her official biographer; but a feminist of a later generation, Ann Oakley
, has speculated that she probably required from Strachey discretion and even self-censorship... |
| Education | Augusta Webster | Suffragist historian Ray Strachey
relates that AW
jeopardized the prospects of women students at the South Kensington Art School
when she was expelled for whistling. Strachey, Ray. The Cause: A Short History of the Women’s Movement in Great Britain. Virago, 1978. 96 Webster, Augusta. “Introduction”. Portraits and Other Poems, edited by Christine Sutphin, Broadview, 2000, pp. 9 - 37. 10 |
| 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 | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's youngest sister, Marjorie Colville (Gumbo) Strachey
(1882-1964), was a teacher, suffragist, writer, and member of the group Woolf called the Neo-Pagans group (which included Rupert Brooke
, Gwen Raverat
, Ka Cox
... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | 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... |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | MAH
's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names... |
| Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | |
| Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | JS
was at Brackenhurst in 1911 when her father, Oliver
, married his second wife, feminist author and activist Ray Costelloe Strachey
. Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 278 Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 45, 51 |
| Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Shortly after the wedding, Julia became the charge of Alys Russell
, a suffrage and temperance activist who was also the aunt of Ray (Costelloe) Strachey
, sister of writer Logan Pearsall Smith
and Mary Berenson |
| Literary responses | Florence Nightingale | John Stuart Mill
, who called Cassandra a cri du coeur, Kahane, Claire. “The Aesthetic Politics of Rage”. LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory, No. 1, pp. 19 -31. 28 Webb, Val. Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Chalice, 2002. 102 |
| Literary responses | Florence Nightingale | Ray Strachey
called this book very long, and further claimed that its arrangement is very confused . . . it is a highly wearisome book to read. It is full of repetitions, and of... |
| Literary responses | Sylvia Pankhurst | The book was well received, and enhanced SP
's reputation with the general public. George Bernard Shaw
praised it in a speech on the BBC
in which he compared SP
to Joan of Arc
... |
| Literary responses | Lydia Becker | Ray Strachey
, in her history of the feminist movement, summarizes LB
's enormous impact: She combined political sagacity with undeviating enthusiasm, and she was therefore widely trusted and respected, in spite of a certain... |
Timeline
15 April 1909
The Common Cause, the official organ of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies
, began weekly publication in Manchester.
26 July 1913
The National Union of Women's Suffrage SocietiesWomen's Pilgrimage culminated in London with a meeting in Hyde Park.
April 1935-June 1936
Stephen King-Hall
published a children'sjournal called Mine, A Magazine for All who are Young.