Lytton Strachey

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

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...

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...

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...

Dorothy Strachey also tutored her brother Lytton in English, History, and French for several months in 1897, after he left Leamington College .

Carrington painted the costumes for Lytton Strachey 's first staged play, The Son of Heaven, shown at the Scala Theatre in 1925.

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...

She sold the copyright to Robinson for two hundred pounds. She seems, however, to have resold copyright in both her novels later.Lytton Strachey wrote the introduction for a reprint of 1908...

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.

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...

MT 's portrait by Romney was reproduced as frontispiece. The profits went to a House of Refuge for Unprotected Female Servants in Dublin—the favourite charity of MT 's mother. The work reached a...

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.

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...

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

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...