Lytton Strachey

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

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...

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.

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 &...

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.

In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey , but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis for...

Dorothy Strachey (later DB ) and her brother Lytton Strachey left England for an extended trip to Gibraltar and Egypt.

Dorothy Strachey (later DB ) holidayed in the south of France with her siblings Marjorie and Lytton Strachey .

DB 's most famous brother was (Giles) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), author and Bloomsbury Group member, whose works include Eminent Victorians (1918), Queen Victoria (1921), and Elizabeth and Essex (1928).

The future Dorothy Bussy spent some of her early childhood at Stowey House on Clapham Common. She also lived with her family at Simla in India for several years: in 1867 to 1870, and...