Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Dora Carrington
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Standard Name: Carrington, Dora
Birth Name: Dora de Houghton Carrington
Pseudonym: Doric
Pseudonym: Cirod
Pseudonym: Mopsa
DC
is known predominantly for her personal relationships with writer Lytton Strachey
and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she produced much striking work—visual and literary—herself. André Derain
and Simon Bussy
gave her portraits and landscapes contemporary praise; in his foreword to Noel Carrington
's 1978 book on his sister's art, former Tate Gallery
Director Sir John Rothenstein
described DC
as the most neglected serious painter of her time.
qtd. in
Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, 1994, pp. 7-9.
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Carrington (the name she chose to be known by) also wrote in range of genres (letters, diaries, short stories, poetry, and drama) throughout her life.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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...
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...
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
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.
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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...
Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983.
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As an adult, JS
spent much time at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire home...
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...
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. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press, 1977–1984, 5 vols.
2: 156
She was close...
Literary responses
E. B. C. Jones
Among her friends one or two (including Dora Carrington
) thought this her best novel.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
It is not clear if EBCJ
published no more books because of a sense that her style of writing was...
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
Timeline
1918: Two years after her best-known portrait of...
Building item
1918
Two years after her best-known portrait of Lytton Strachey
, Carrington
(Dora Carrington) painted another portrait of him, sitting in a deck-chair in the garden at Tidmarsh Mill, where they lived.
Windsor, Alan, editor. Handbook of Modern British Painting 1900-1980. Scolar Press, 1992.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
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Strachey, Lytton. The Shorter Strachey. Editors Holroyd, Michael and Paul Levy, Oxford University Press, 1980.
