Lytton Strachey

DC was born into a middle-class family with primarily English roots, whose strict moral and religious codes she rejected in favour of a more socially relaxed or bohemian painting and writing life in London and...

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...

Distraught by the recent death of her dearest companion, Lytton Strachey , DC made a second suicide attempt. This time she shot herself, and died.

AG 's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman and his brother Francis W. Newman . Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG 's grandfather)....

Lytton Strachey , biographer and essayist, died of cancer at Ham Spray near Hungerford, Berkshire.

AG was distantly related to the diarist and memoirist Elizabeth Grant , and thus to the forebears of twentieth-century writers Julia Strachey , Lytton Strachey , Dorothy Bussy , and Amabel Williams-Ellis .

Amabel Strachey had a long roster of talented, accomplished relations by birth and marriage. Within her own generation her cousins or cousins by marriage included the writers Lytton Strachey , Ray Strachey , and Dorothy Bussy

Lytton Strachey proposed marriage to Virginia Stephen (later VW ), then quickly retracted his proposal.

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 ...

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).

Carrington rejected the offer, and she and Gertler did not begin their physical affair until early 1917. This was short-lived: their relationship ended shortly after 14 February 1918, when a furiously jealous...

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...

Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen and a member of the Apostles . A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first...

Lytton Strachey , one of Julia's uncles, was a hugely successful writer whose works include the revolutionary Eminent Victorians (1918). Julia was first introduced to the Stracheys' wide and distinguished social circles as a young girl.

Leonard had met Virginia and Vanessa in Thoby's rooms in 1901, and had fallen in love with Vanessa. On 17 November 1904 he dined at 46 Gordon Square just before leaving to take up...