Lytton Strachey

While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands . During the early...

JS 's lifelong friendship with writer Frances Marshall (later Partridge) first began when the two were girls together at Brackenhurst school. As an adult, JS spent much time at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire home...

Lytton Strachey arranged for KM and Virginia Woolf to meet.

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

Thinking of their mutual creative influence and of Fry's place in her family, Woolf surprised herself by grieving even more deeply for Fry than she had for another great friend, Lytton Strachey , who had...

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

The others who were there included J. T. Sheppard , Fredegond Shove , Carrington , David Garnett , G. F. Short , Lytton Strachey , and Evan Morgan . Mansfield had parted with Murry...

Lytton Strachey wrote caustically about these, but others were much more favourable.

After her return from Paris, HM was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien and T. S. Eliot , Lytton Strachey , Molly and Desmond MacCarthy , Duncan Grant ,...

DC made her first suicide attempt on the morning of Lytton Strachey 's death: she locked herself in her garage and attempted carbon monoxide poisoning, but was discovered when her household awoke.

EBCJ had many friends among the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf hovered between liking and disliking, feeling she could never become intimate with Topsy but welcoming the spruce shining mind. She was close...

Lytton Strachey told Leonard Woolf that Virginia's story was a work of genius. The liquidity of the style fills me with envy . . . . How on earth does she make the English language...

Reviews were mixed. The Times called the book catty as well as too clever . . . by half, while the New York Times Book Review called it awkward and inflated while also accusing it...

The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...

A number of writers rallied in support of RH . E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw , T. S. Eliot