Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
129, 156
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington's diaries incorporate lived moments restructured as short stories, some titled (A Short Love Affaire or The Danish Grave and The Reverse of the Medal, for instance); poetry (On a Picture of... |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington | |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Cultural formation | Dora Carrington | Here, Morrell
and another guest, writer Aldous Huxley
(who were both friends of and loyal to Carrington's admirer Mark Gertler
), confronted Carrington about her reluctance to give up her virginity. She described the episode... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC
as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same... |
Occupation | Dora Carrington | Carrington painted the costumes for Lytton Strachey
's first staged play, The Son of Heaven, shown at the Scala Theatre
in 1925. Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 130 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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