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.
Black and white photo of Dora Carrington standing beside a seated Lytton Strachey in a garden. She is wearing jodhpurs, riding boots, and a sweater over a shirt. Her hair is bobbed and she holds a horse's saddle with the left stirrup hanging down.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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 ,...
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 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.
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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...
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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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.
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As an adult, JS spent much time at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire home...
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...
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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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.
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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...
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.
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Mansfield had parted with Murry...
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...

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.