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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 | 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 |
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... |
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 | JS
was writing this novel by November 1950, when she read an early draft to Frances Partridge
at the latter's home, Ham Spray. Partridge notes that during working walks, Strachey remarked on the... |
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 |