Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin.
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Literary responses | Rose Macaulay | The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt
, reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey
style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment... |
Literary responses | Penelope Mortimer | 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... |
Literary responses | Florence Nightingale | After her death, Lytton Strachey
portrayed FN
in Eminent Victorians, in what might be seen as an attack. He reported that her mother had once cried: We are ducks who have hatched a wild... |
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 |
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 |
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... |
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... |
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 |
Publishing | Mary Tighe | A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library
C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey
(with his... |
Publishing | Mary Tighe | MT
's portrait by Romney
was reproduced as frontispiece. Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, p. vii - xxi. xxiii |
Publishing | Amabel Williams-Ellis | Amabel Strachey
, later AWE
, wrote regularly for The Spectator, then owned by her father, John St Loe Strachey
. Other relatives, such as Lytton Strachey
, also contributed, and she was the journal's literary editor for 1922-3. Sanders, Charles Richard. The Strachey Family, 1588-1932. Greenwood. 316-21 Contemporary Authors. Gale Research. 105 |
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 |
Reception | Virginia Woolf | Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa
, Clive Bell |
Reception | Dora Carrington | She was very pleased with her model and with her rendering: I was completely overcome by her grandeur, and wit. I am painting her against the bookcase sitting full length in a chair, in a... |
Reception | Dora Carrington | She called this her only successful work Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 289 Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 289 |
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