Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Dora Carrington
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Standard Name: Carrington, Dora
Birth Name: Dora de Houghton Carrington
Pseudonym: Doric
Pseudonym: Cirod
Pseudonym: Mopsa
DC
is known predominantly for her personal relationships with writer Lytton Strachey
and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she produced much striking work—visual and literary—herself. André Derain
and Simon Bussy
gave her portraits and landscapes contemporary praise; in his foreword to Noel Carrington
's 1978 book on his sister's art, former Tate Gallery
Director Sir John Rothenstein
described DC
as the most neglected serious painter of her time.
qtd. in
Holroyd, Michael, and Jane Hill. “Foreword”. The Art of Dora Carrington, Herbert Press, 1994, pp. 7-9.
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Carrington (the name she chose to be known by) also wrote in range of genres (letters, diaries, short stories, poetry, and drama) throughout her life.
The literary house-party at Garsington performed KM
's The Laurels, a kind of Ibsen
-Russian play
qtd. in
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
227
(as Carrington
called it).
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
227
Publishing
Antonia Fraser
She followed it with Love Letters: An Anthology, dedicated to Harold Pinter
and published in later 1976.
Fraser, Antonia. Must You Go?. Random House of Canada, 2010.
62
Writing about this book in the Times on 6 November that year, AF
noted that she...
Publishing
Virginia Woolf
VW
published Kew Gardens at the Hogarth Press
, with illustrations drawn by Vanessa Bell
and done as woodcuts by Carrington
; they were printing in November 1918 and choosing paper for a cover in...
Publishing
Mary Tighe
A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library
C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey
(with his...
Publishing
Mary Tighe
MT
's portrait by Romney
was reproduced as frontispiece.
Weller, Earle Vonard, and Mary Tighe. “Introduction / Memoir of Mary Tighe”. Keats and Mary Tighe, Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966, p. vii - xxi.
In the summer of 1928 RL
(who was trying to keep apart from Philipps) rented the Mill House at Tidmarsh, once inhabited by their friends Lytton Strachey
and Carrington
. Then she moved to...
Residence
Katherine Mansfield
Brett and Carrington
stayed there with them. Five months later KM
was off alone again, to Chelsea.
Alpers, Antony. The Life of Katherine Mansfield. Oxford University Press, 1982.
411
Textual Features
Pat Barker
The story begins with the ambitions and emotional entanglements of a small group of Slade School of Art
students (two men, Paul Tarrant and the precocious success Kit Neville, and one strikingly talented woman, Elinor...
Textual Features
D. H. Lawrence
The novel follows the personal and intellectual development of two sisters from The Rainbow: Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen, along with their lovers, family, and friends. It also contains fictionalized portraits of Dora Carrington
(as...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Julia Strachey
The published text resists any narrow, rigid definitions of autobiography. Both Strachey and Partridge are listed as its authors. The latter edited Strachey's prose (fiction and non-fiction), as well as excerpts from her letters and...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Nina Hamnett
This book is highly readable: its fast-paced, witty narrative conducted in short sentences with few dates and even less of explanation or embroidery. NH
is positively off-hand about such important topics as her early relations...
