Dora Carrington

29 March 1893 - 11 March 1932

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.

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.

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Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
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. 410 Mansfield had parted with Murry...
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. 411
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. 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. 51 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...
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. xxiii 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...
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. 53
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 ,...

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