Carrington's Letters by Dora Carrington

Carrington's Letters by Dora Carrington

Dora Carrington was considered an outsider to Bloomsbury. For over a decade she was the companion of gay writer Lytton Strachey, and killed herself, when he died in 1932. She was friends with the greatest minds of the day and her correspondence stars a roster of fascinating characters. This book deals with Carrington's letters.

Though Virginia and Vanessa, Clive and Bertie, Bunny and Roger all feature, this is much more than another tribute to the tribe -- Michael Bird * Daily Telegraph *
Chisholm’s masterstoke is to celebrate the letter as artwork… Letters are, of course, a site of aesthetic experiment and creativity, and to view them as such permits the artistry of the fragment to stand, enabling the collage collection to tell other stories of form and function -- Amber KRegis * Times Literary Supplement *

Dora Carrington was born in 1893 in Hereford. At seventeen she enrolled at the Slade School of Fine Art, part of an extraordinary generation of painters including Mark Gertler and Paul and John Nash. She painted her friends, her house, her animals, her furniture and designed jackets for books published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press. She was the long-time companion of writer Lytton Strachey, though in 1921 she married Ralph Partridge, who joined her and Lytton in a largely harmonious ménage à trois. In 1932, after the death of Strachey from cancer, she committed suicide, aged thirty-eight.

Anne Chisholm is a biographer and critic who has also worked in journalism and publishing. She has written biographies of Nancy Cunard, which won the Silver PEN Prize for non-fiction, Lord Beaverbrook (with Michael Davie) which was runner-up for the Hawthornden Prize, and, most recently, of the diarist and Bloomsbury insider Frances Partridge, which was shortlisted for the Marsh Biography Award. She is a former chair and now vice president of the Royal Society of Literature.

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ISBN 13	9780701187583
ISBN 10	0701187581
Title	Carrington's Letters
Author	Dora Carrington
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2017-11-23
Number of pages	448
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.