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 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Carrington's husband then moved in officially with Carrington and Lytton Strachey
. Extramarital affairs of the parties to this unusual marriage had begun by March 1922, yet Carrington and Partridge remained married for the rest... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | DC
met her greatest love, the writer Lytton Strachey
, during a three-day stay at Asheham, the Sussex home of Virginia
(and Leonard) Woolf
. This was a year which in Virginia Woolf's life was... |
| Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John
(wife of Augustus John
, and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann
, and Julia Strachey |
| Residence | Dora Carrington | DC
and Lytton Strachey
moved in together at Tidmarsh Mill near Pangbourne in Berkshire; it was leased for them by friends who were then free to visit on weekends. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 127 Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 138 |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Quite soon after this all her deepest concern became focussed on Lytton Strachey
, who was dying painfully from undiagnosed stomach cancer. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 292-3 |
| Residence | Dora Carrington | While DC
and her husband
travelled through Spain, their companion Lytton Strachey
secured the trio's new home, Ham Spray: Strachey paid £2,300 for it using profits from his recent success, Queen Victoria. Caws, Mary Ann. Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington. Routledge. 116-17 Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 204-6 |
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.