Lytton Strachey

The question of how to understand IB and her somewhat tenuous relationship to her famous book remains. Lytton Strachey hoped to write a biography of her in 1908, but found the materials wanting. By 1922...

The future Dorothy Bussy spent some of her early childhood at Stowey House on Clapham Common. She also lived with her family at Simla in India for several years: in 1867 to 1870, and...

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...

DC and Lytton Strachey moved in together at Tidmarsh Mill near Pangbourne in Berkshire; it was leased for them by friends who were then free to visit on weekends.

While DC and her husband travelled through Spain, their companion Lytton Strachey secured the trio's new home, Ham Spray: Strachey paid £2,300 for it using profits from his recent success, Queen Victoria.

Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...

At Ham Spray in 1928, DC depicted Adam and Eve in a mosaic around Lytton Strachey 's bedroom fireplace; this image was later replaced with Boris Anrep 's painted hermaphrodite (which according to critic Jane Hill

Carrington created her best known painting, a portrait of her beloved companion , Lytton Strachey.

Carrington's diaries incorporate lived moments restructured as short stories, some titled (A Short Love Affaire or The Danish Grave and The Reverse of the Medal, for instance); poetry (On a Picture of...

MAH felt that the vogue, fed by Lytton Strachey and others, for non-admiring or debunking biography had gone far enough. She and her sister Margot joked about founding a society for the protection of the...

Carrington painted Tidmarsh Mill, inspired by the house she had recently moved into with author Lytton Strachey ; critic Mary Ann Caws calls the work Carrington's unchallenged masterpiece.

Beginning in 1918, Carrington and Lytton Strachey composed poems for each other on their respective birthdays.

This pageant-like text may have been inspired by or adapted from The Masque of Empire written by Amy Strachey and performed by the village children (including Amabel as Britannia) at Newlands Corner in March 1908...

In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey , but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis for...

Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges living writers into two...