Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray.
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Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | DC
met D. H. Lawrence
, Frieda Lawrence
, and David Garnett
at the home of another writer, Gilbert Cannan
: Cholesbury Manor House in Cholesbury, where she was a guest with Mark Gertler
. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 58-9 |
Friends, Associates | Dora Carrington | DC
met certain members of the Bloomsbury Group for the first time: she attended the World's Fair at Islington with David Garnett
, Vanessa Bell
, and Duncan Grant
, among others. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 61 |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | AW
's vibrant personality attracted many friends, several of whom were writers and artists. By all accounts, she was an extraordinarily vital and charismatic woman. David Garnett
describes her as a a very handsome, big... |
Friends, Associates | Anna Wickham | AW
frequented popular Bohemian hangouts such as the Café Royal and, later, the Fitzroy Tavern. Wickham, Anna. “Introduction”. Selected Poems, edited by David Garnett, Chatto and Windus, pp. 7-11. 9-10 Hepburn, James et al. “Anna Wickham: A Memoir”. The Writings of Anna Wickham, Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 1-48. 26 |
Friends, Associates | Margiad Evans | Though a lover of solitude, ME
was also sociable. She made lifelong friendships on her stay in Brittany at the age of seventeen. While staying with Mrs Lloyd-Jones she met Professor Ifor Williams
and his... |
Friends, Associates | Eleanor Farjeon | Back in London she acquired a circle of largely musical friends, many of them later well-known names, including Myra Hess
and Clifford
and Arnold Bax
. Later this circle expanded to include literary people: Viola Meynell |
Friends, Associates | Virginia Woolf | Early members of what VW
called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen
, Leonard Woolf
, Clive Bell
, E. M. Forster
,... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | DC
began a long friendship with Virginia Woolf
when she was summoned to Woolf's country home, Asheham, after breaking into the house with Barbara Hiles
and David Garnett
. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 95-6 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Dora Carrington | Woolf
recalled their first conversation to Garnett
: It flatters us a good deal to see what a reputation for a temper we've got. I telephoned to Miss Carrington, and heard her quake at the... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anna Wickham | AW
's autobiography indicates that the marriage soured quickly; within a few years she felt her husband had regressed from my devoted lover to my enemy and my judge. Wickham, Anna et al. “Fragment of an Autobiography: Prelude to a Spring Clean”. The Writings of Anna Wickham Free Woman and Poet, edited by Reginald Donald Smith, Virago Press, pp. 51-157. 51 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Garnett | After an extremely difficult labour, CG
gave birth to her only son, the future novelist, editor, and publisher David Garnett
. Garnett, Richard. Constance Garnett: A Heroic Life. Sinclair-Stevenson. 77 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Virginia Woolf | Adrian
(1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge
... |
Cultural formation | Sylvia Townsend Warner | Although she had a long-lasting love-affair with a man (musicologist Percy Buck
) and shared affectionate, long-term, non-sexual relationships with men (for example with David Garnett
), her thirty-nine-year lesbian relationship with Valentine Ackland
(which... |
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