Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin.
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Lytton Strachey
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Standard Name: Strachey, Lytton
Used Form: (Giles) Lytton Strachey
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Reception | Isabella Beeton | The question of how to understand IB
and her somewhat tenuous relationship to her famous book remains. Lytton Strachey
hoped to write a biography of her in 1908, but found the materials wanting. By 1922... |
| Occupation | Dorothy Brett | After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB
became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take... |
| Travel | Dorothy Bussy | Dorothy Strachey (later DB
) and her brother Lytton Strachey
left England for an extended trip to Gibraltar and Egypt. |
| Travel | Dorothy Bussy | |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dorothy Bussy | DB
's most famous brother was (Giles) Lytton Strachey
(1880-1932), author and Bloomsbury Group member, whose works include Eminent Victorians (1918), Queen Victoria (1921), and Elizabeth and Essex (1928). |
| Residence | Dorothy Bussy | The future Dorothy Bussy spent some of her early childhood at Stowey House on Clapham Common. She also lived with her family at Simla in India for several years: in 1867 to 1870, and... |
| Occupation | Dorothy Bussy | Dorothy Strachey also tutored her brother Lytton
in English, History, and French for several months in 1897, after he left Leamington College
. Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin. 107 |
| Friends, Associates | Dorothy Bussy | La Souco was visited regularly by all of their Bloomsbury Group friends, among them Lytton
and the other Strachey siblings, the Vanessa
and Clive Bell
, Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
, John Maynard Keynes
and... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Mary Butts | In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey
, Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol. 5 , No. 2, pp. 32-45. 34 |
| Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington
painted Tidmarsh Mill, inspired by the house she had recently moved into with author Lytton Strachey
; critic Mary Ann Caws
calls the work Carrington's unchallenged masterpiece. Caws, Mary Ann. Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington. Routledge. 149 Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 56 |
| Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Beginning in 1918, Carrington and Lytton Strachey
composed poems for each other on their respective birthdays. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 129, 156 |
| Publishing | Dora Carrington | Writing as Mopsa, DC
won two guineas in a contest run by the weekend Observer: she entered a whimsical biographical essay on her companion Lytton Strachey
, by then famous as an iconoclastic biographer. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 288 |
| Author summary | Dora Carrington | 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... |
| Cultural formation | Dora Carrington | DC
was born into a middle-class family with primarily English roots, whose strict moral and religious codes she rejected in favour of a more socially relaxed or bohemian painting and writing life in London and... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Carrington rejected the offer, and she and Gertler did not begin their physical affair until early 1917. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 35, 52, 111 |
Timeline
From early summer 1915: Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of...
Building item
From early summer 1915
Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline
and Philip Morrell
, became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.
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.
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
Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace, 1921.
Strachey, Lytton. The Shorter Strachey. Editors Holroyd, Michael and Paul Levy, Oxford University Press, 1980.