Lytton Strachey

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

Carrington rejected the offer, and she and Gertler did not begin their physical affair until early 1917. This was short-lived: their relationship ended shortly after 14 February 1918, when a furiously jealous...

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...

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...

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

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...

DC met her greatest love, the writer Lytton Strachey , during a three-day stay at Asheham, the Sussex home of Virginia (and Leonard) Woolf .

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

DC and Lytton Strachey moved in together at Tidmarsh Mill near Pangbourne in Berkshire; it was leased for them by friends who were then free to visit on weekends.

Quite soon after this all her deepest concern became focussed on Lytton Strachey , who was dying painfully from undiagnosed stomach cancer. She clung to his deathbed statement: Darling Carrington I love her. I...

While DC and her husband travelled through Spain, their companion Lytton Strachey secured the trio's new home, Ham Spray: Strachey paid £2,300 for it using profits from his recent success, Queen Victoria.

As part of a suicide watch around Carrington organized by her friends, Virginia and Leonard Woolf visited her at Ham Spray on 10 March. Virginia later wrote in her diary: She burst into tears &...

Lytton Strachey , biographer and essayist, died of cancer at Ham Spray near Hungerford, Berkshire.

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...

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.