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.
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.
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...
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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.
62
Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF
noted that she...
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
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...
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...
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.
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...
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
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...
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...
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.
227
(as Carrington
called it).
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press.
227
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...
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.
