Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
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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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Friends, Associates | E. M. Forster | EMF
went up to study at King's College
, Cambridge
. While there, he became a member of the Apostles, and met several future member of the Bloomsbury Group, including J. M. Keynes
, Thoby Stephen |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Agnes Giberne | AG
's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman
and his brother Francis W. Newman
. Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG
's grandfather).... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Grant | AG
was distantly related to the diarist and memoirist Elizabeth Grant
, and thus to the forebears of twentieth-century writers Julia Strachey
, Lytton Strachey
, Dorothy Bussy
, and Amabel Williams-Ellis
. |
| Literary responses | Radclyffe Hall | 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 |
| Friends, Associates | Mary Agnes Hamilton | One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country. Hamilton, Mary Agnes. Remembering My Good Friends. Jonathan Cape. 74 |
| Textual Production | Mary Agnes Hamilton | |
| Publishing | Elizabeth Inchbald | She sold the copyright to Robinson
for two hundred pounds. She seems, however, to have resold copyright in both her novels later. Raven, James. “Historical Introduction: The Novel Comes of Age”. The English Novel 1770-1829, edited by Peter Garside et al., Oxford University Press, pp. 14-117. 52 Garside, Peter et al., editors. The English Novel 1770-1829. Oxford University Press. 1: 680 |
| Leisure and Society | E. B. C. Jones | 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. Woolf, Virginia. The Diary of Virginia Woolf. Editors Bell, Anne Olivier and Andrew McNeillie, Hogarth Press. 2: 156 |
| Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | Lytton Strachey
visited RL
and Leslie Runciman
at Newcastle; at this time RL
's future second husband, Wogan Philipps
, was sharing the house with the couple. Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 62 |
| Travel | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
and Wogan Philipps
toured France with Lytton Strachey
and George Rylands
. Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 81 |
| Friends, Associates | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
and Wogan Philipps
were constant companions to Lytton Strachey
at his home at Ham Spray, Ipsden, during the last weeks of his life. Lehmann, John. In My Own Time. Little, Brown. 124-5 |
| Residence | Rosamond Lehmann | In the summer of 1928 RL
(who was trying to keep apart from Philipps) rented the Mill House at Tidmarsh, once inhabited by their friends Lytton Strachey
and Carrington
. Then she moved to... |
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