Carrington, Dora de Houghton ___ 1893-1932 ___ British ___ painter

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
Carrington, the fourth of five children born to a Liverpool merchant, was brought up in Bedford, and educated at the Slade School of Fine Art. While still young, she became deeply involved with Lytton Strachey, a homosexual writer. In 1921, she married Ralph Partridge and the married couple continued to live with Strachey. Thereafter, she developed artistic skills, looked after Strachey, whose health was poor, and had time for at least two celebrated affairs, one with Gerald Brenan. In 1926, Partridge separated from Carrington, but continued to visit Carrington and Strachey. In 1932, Strachey died. After trying to commit suicide once before Strachey's death, she succeeded only seven weeks after his death. The book that contains her diaries, not published until 1970, has more letters than diary material, but is, nevertheless, remarkable for it records her account of Strachey's death and her thought processes in deciding to kill herself.
A biography link
Wikipedia bio

DIARY DATES, CONTENT DESCRIPTORS
1722-1744 ___ religious social family health people language

WEB TEXT LINKS
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ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT LINKS
British Library, Manuscript Collections

SOME PUBLISHED TITLES
Carrington; Letters and Extracts from Her Diaries
 

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