Dora Carrington

Self-portrait

Dora Carrington (Dora de Houghton Carrington, 1893–1932) was a painter and decorative artist. She was born in Hereford and studied at the Slade School of Art at University College London. She was generally referred to just by her surname.

Carrington had at least two lesbian affairs (with Henrietta Bingham and Lady Ottoline Morrell) but the love of her life was Lytton Strachey. In 1921 she agreed to marry Ralph Partridge, not for love but to create a menage a trois, as Strachey was sexually interested in Partridge. She committed suicide two months after Strachey's death.

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