Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989.
187-93, 202-3
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Cultural formation | Julia Strachey | JS
grew up in a middle-class, intellectual, predominantly English family, though she spent part of her childhood with her English father and Swiss mother in India. Her father's militant atheism seems not to have... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Partridge
became involved with women including Valentine Dobrée
and Frances Marshall
(whom he later married), while Carrington began a relationship with Gerald Brenan
this year. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray, 1989. 187-93, 202-3 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | JS
's lifelong friendship with writer Frances Marshall (later Partridge)
first began when the two were girls together at Brackenhurst
school. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 51 |
Friends, Associates | Julia Strachey | Friends and neighbours here included James
and Alix Strachey
, Clive Bell
, and Virginia
and Leonard Woolf
. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 105 |
Health | Julia Strachey | Constantly lonely (Gowing was currently in a sanatorium for tuberculosis), JS
began in 1951 to see a psychologist, a woman who advised her that her recurring dreams of small animals desperate for love and attention... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Julia Strachey | The novel's first published title was inspired, according to Frances Partridge
, by Virginia Woolf
's description of painter Henry Lamb
as nipped, like a man on a pier. qtd. in Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 11 |
Occupation | Dora Carrington | Carrington was fascinated by film, and in August 1929, in addition to other projects, she co-ordinated the filming of Dr Turner's Mental Home, recorded on a cinecamera by some of her friends and featuring... |
politics | Julia Strachey | JS
wrote to Frances Partridge
in July 1940 about the strange calm that has fallen—the calm before the storm, I suppose. I don't feel anxiety any more, personally—in any conscious form that is. I just... |
Author summary | Julia Strachey | |
Publishing | Julia Strachey | This story was first presented by JS
to the Memoir Club
as Animalia. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 263 |
Publishing | Julia Strachey | JS
's acquaintance John Lehmann
issued a number of her texts: in addition to The Man on the Pier (1951), he published in the New Writing, in 1940 and 1942-3 respectively, Strachey's stories Fragments... |
Publishing | Julia Strachey | JS
wrote the novel while staying with her aunt Dorothy Bussy
's family at Roquebrune in France, informally separated from her first husband, Stephen Tomlin
. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 113, 116 |
Textual Features | Julia Strachey | Frances Partridge
calls this a mammoth Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 198 Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 159, 198 |
Textual Production | Julia Strachey | Frances Partridge
observes that Strachey began to write these memoirs [q]uite late in her life, probably in her sixties. Strachey, Julia, and Frances Partridge. Julia: A Portrait of Julia Strachey. Little, Brown, 1983. 12 |
Textual Production | Dora Carrington | Carrington's paintings are housed in such institutions as the Scottish National Portrait Gallery
, the Tate Gallery
, the Slade School of Art
, and private collections. Many of her papers, mainly letters and diaries... |