Julia Strachey
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Julia Strachey was an English writer, born in Allahabad, India, where her father, Oliver Strachey, the elder brother of Lytton Strachey, was a civil servant. Her mother, Ruby Mayer, was of Swiss-Germa
Julia Strachey at San Gimignano, 1922
A young Julia Strachey in 1913 at the suffrage parade in Littlehampton
Julia Frances Strachey and Joseph August 1902 by Thomas D. Winter NPG x13098
Lawrence Gowing
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Sir Lawrence Burnett Gowing was an English artist, writer, curator and teacher. Initially recognised as a portrait and landscape painter, he quickly rose to prominence as an art educator, writer, and
Julia Strachey
…a living by writing short stories for magazines. It was also the beginning of her novel-writing career. In 1939, she met the artist (and later critic) Lawrence Gowing, who was, at the time, only 21 years old. The couple went on to spend thirty years together, fifteen of them married, in Newcastle and in Chelsea…
Gowing in 1952