Talk:Dora Carrington

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She was named Carrington, Dora Carrington. Is there any traceble source that justifies "de Hougton"??


 * Yes, give or take a typo.


 * Her parents were Samuel Carrington and Charlotte Eliza Houghton, who married in 1888


 * Carrington's name at birth was registered as Dora de Hoghton Carrington


 * 'Hoghton' is probably a misprint, by the registrar or the indexer.


 * Her brother Noel gives her name as 'Dora de Houghton Carrington' in an appendix to Garnett's book.


 * There appears to be no evidence for 'Hougton' as such


 * 109.145.108.66 (talk) 00:06, 13 July 2015 (UTC)

Carrington As An Artist
Kudos to the article for pointing out a fact which was much neglected during Carrington's lifetime: she was a serious, productive artist with  powerful talents. It's high time someone with the nerve and the credentials compared her body of work with that of, let's say, the somewhat overpraised Vanessa Bell.

In regard to Virginia Woolf's rather snarky evaluation of Carrington: it's important to remember (according to Woolf's biographer and nephew, Quentin Bell) that as a young woman Woolf had hoped to marry Lytton Strachey. But he rejected her, and lived on terms of loving friendship with Carrington until his death. Younggoldchip (talk) 17:31, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Is there any source that supports these assertions: "In fact, her work was not considered art at all. It featured Victorian-style pictures which were made from coloured tinfoil and paper."? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkalm (talk • contribs) 02:18, 24 December 2023 (UTC)

Carrington did both decorative and serious art. In Quentin Bell's biography of Virginia Woolf, he wrote that the Bloomsbury attitude toward Carrington was colored by classism. Carrington came from a middle-class family. The Stephen and Strachey families belonged to the literary elite. Many of them resented her talent. They simply found it impossible to admit that someone with her unglamorous background could be equal, or even better, in artistic achievement than their own Vanessa Bell or Duncan Grant. Yet she won scholarships and prizes, including at the Slade, throughout her young career. When she joined Lytton Strachey at Ham Spray, she did paint walls and furniture in beautiful designs. But she also continued to paint seriously. Her landscapes and her portraits, especially of Strachey, are among the most accomplished and compelling of her generation. The arc of real appreciation for her work has risen too slowly. But its movement is continuing, and upward. Younggoldchip (talk) 16:00, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Ottoline Morrell
What's the basis for the statement that she is known to have had an affair with Lady Ottoline Morrell? There's no suggestion of this at all in Gretchen Gerzina's biography of Carrington. --rossb (talk) 09:22, 25 April 2016 (UTC)


 * A good question


 * Lady Ottoline was added to this article on 1 June 2012: the justification was that the relationship was mentioned in the article on her. However, the article actually says that '[Lady Ottoline]'s lovers may have included . . . Carrington . . . '


 * Since this is distinctly flimsy Morrell is deleted until something more solid is available 109.145.109.91 (talk) 23:50, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

Lead Poisoning
My recent addition was undone: is there any reason why we cannot point out that there have been no studies yet on Carrington's potential for lead poisoning and its implications for her physical and mental health? Denahansen (talk) 20:37, 18 February 2022 (UTC)


 * Sorry for undoing the addition which you made in good faith. The encyclopedia is about facts, not unproven potential links. If you can find a source that says lead poisoning is suspected, that will work better. Wire723 (talk) 16:25, 19 February 2022 (UTC)