Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, 1994, pp. 7 - 9.
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Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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Education | Dorothy Brett | DB
attended the Slade School of Art
, where she formed close friendships with Mark Gertler
and Dora Carrington
. Hignett, Sean. Brett. Franklin Watts, 1985. 38-9 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Education | Iris Tree | Around 1910, IT
began attending the Slade School of Art in London, where she studied under Henry Tonks
and Ambrose McEvoy
. Her time as an art student was also a time of exploration... |
Friends, Associates | D. H. Lawrence | Several women writers were numbered among DHL
's friends and acquaintances: Amy Lowell
, Katherine Mansfield
, Anna Wickham
, Lady Cynthia Asquith
, Carrington
, Brett
, Catherine Carswell
, and Lady Ottoline Morrell |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Early members of what VW
called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
, Leonard Woolf
, Clive Bell
, E. M. Forster
,... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | Writing to her brother about their Christmas, RL
said that Strachey had rallied and I feel now he will live, though the danger is still acute. The bottom would fall out of the world for... |
Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL
was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands
. During the early... |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | The same year she got to know Edward Marsh
. Her early years with Murry (and her visits to Garsington Manor) further developed her network of relationships with writers and artists. At Runcton in 1912... |
Friends, Associates | Katherine Mansfield | The others who were there included J. T. Sheppard
, Fredegond Shove
, Carrington
, David Garnett
, G. F. Short
, Lytton Strachey
, and Evan Morgan
. Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982. 410 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | JS
began a close friendship with painter Carrington
(or Dora Carrington), who had preceded Frances Partridge as Ralph Partridge's wife. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989. 223 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | JS
's lifelong friendship with writer Frances Marshall (later Partridge)
first began when the two were girls together at Brackenhurst
school. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 51 |
Friends, Associates | Nina Hamnett | At this time she began to meet people connected with the modernist movement, like Carrington
and Mark Gertler
. She met and sat for the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
, and she also met the painter... |
Friends, Associates | Iris Tree | Among IT
's close friends were poet, publisher, journalist, and political activist Nancy Cunard
, artist and diarist Dora Carrington
, socialite Sybil Hart-Davis
, and socialite, actress, and memoirist Lady Diana Cooper
. Fielding, Daphne. The Rainbow Picnic. Eyre Methuen, 1974. 53 |
Leisure and Society | E. B. C. Jones | EBCJ
had many friends among the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf
hovered between liking and disliking, feeling she could never become intimate with Topsy but welcoming the spruce shining mind. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillieEditors , Hogarth Press, 1984. 2: 156 |
Literary responses | E. B. C. Jones | Among her friends one or two (including Dora Carrington
) thought this her best novel. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Occupation | Roger Fry | At 33 Fitzroy Square in Bloomsbury, London, founder RF
opened the Omega Workshops
, an artists' group whose participants included Wyndham Lewis
, Vanessa Bell
and Duncan Grant
(both co-directors), and Dora Carrington
. Hussey, Mark. Virginia Woolf A to Z. Facts on File, 1995. 195 |