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.
Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, 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.

Connections

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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Julia Strachey
The published text resists any narrow, rigid definitions of autobiography. Both Strachey and Partridge are listed as its authors. The latter edited Strachey's prose (fiction and non-fiction), as well as excerpts from her letters and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Nina Hamnett
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...
Textual Features Pat Barker
The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor...
Textual Features D. H. Lawrence
The novel follows the personal and intellectual development of two sisters from The Rainbow: Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, along with their lovers, family, and friends. It also contains fictionalized portraits of Dora Carrington (as...
Residence Katherine Mansfield
Brett and Carrington stayed there with them. Five months later KM was off alone again, to Chelsea.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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Residence Rosamond Lehmann
In the summer of 1928 RL (who was trying to keep apart from Philipps) rented the Mill House at Tidmarsh, once inhabited by their friends Lytton Strachey and Carrington . Then she moved to...
Publishing Antonia Fraser
She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter and published in later 1976.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada.
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Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF noted that she...
Publishing Mary Tighe
A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...
Publishing Mary Tighe
MT 's portrait by Romney was reproduced as frontispiece.
Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, p. vii - xxi.
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The profits went to a House of Refuge for Unprotected Female Servants in Dublin—the favourite charity of MT 's mother. The work reached a...
Publishing Virginia Woolf
VW published Kew Gardens at the Hogarth Press , with illustrations drawn by Vanessa Bell and done as woodcuts by Carrington ; they were printing in November 1918 and choosing paper for a cover in...
Performance of text Katherine Mansfield
The literary house-party at Garsington performed KM 's The Laurels, a kind of Ibsen -Russian play
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
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(as Carrington called it).
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
227
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.
195
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...
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.
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She was close...
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.
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Timeline

1918: Two years after her best-known portrait of...

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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.

1920: Carrington painted her portrait E. M. Fo...

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1920

Carrington painted her portrait E. M. Forster.

5 February 2004: Frances Partridge, diarist, memoirist, and...

Women writers item

5 February 2004

Frances Partridge , diarist, memoirist, and the longest-surviving member of the Bloomsbury group, died at the age of very nearly a hundred and four.

Texts

Carrington, Dora et al. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries. Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Garnett, David et al. “Preface”. Carrington: Letters and Extracts from her Diaries, Jonathan Cape, 1970, pp. 9-13.