Friday 24 December 2010

Julia Strachey, Stephen Tomlin and Dora Carrington

Julia Strachey married Stephen Tomlin in July 1927. The married couple rented a stone cottage at Swallowcliffe in Wiltshire. Carrington was a regular visitor: "Really its equal to Ham Spray in elegance and comfort, only cleaner and tidier." Carrington was in love with both Stephen and Julia. She told Gerald Brenan that she was strongly attracted to Julia and that she was "sleeping night after night in my house, and there's nothing to be done, but to admire her from a distance, and steal distracted kisses under cover of saying goodnight." In October 1929 she sent a letter to her complaining: "Julia, I wish I was a young man and not a hybrid monster, so that I could please you a little in some way, with my affection. You know you move me strangely. I remember for some reasons every thing you say and do, you charm me so much."

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTstracheyJ.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTtomlinS.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ARTcarrington.htm

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I am trying to track down n image on your website of several images of David Atlee Philips, AKA Maurice Bishop, for use in a documentary film. If you own these images, can you give permission? If not, can you tell me who I should contact?

Thanks,


Rick Tejada-Flores
grtf@paradigmproductions.org

Unknown said...

I am trying to track down n image on your website of several images of David Atlee Philips, AKA Maurice Bishop, for use in a documentary film. If you own these images, can you give permission? If not, can you tell me who I should contact?

Thanks,


Rick Tejada-Flores
grtf@paradigmproductions.org