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This is a bonus Diaries & Letters post. The next biography for free and paying subscribers will be published later this week. Thank you for your support! EASTER SPECIAL OFFER In 1912 English writer D.H. Lawrence fell in love with Emma Maria Frieda Johanna Weekley, daughter of Baron Friedrich Ernst Emil Ludwig von Richthofen, an engineer in the German army, and Anna Elise Lydia Marquier.

EASTER SPECIAL OFFER This is a bonus Diaries & Letters post. The next biography, for all subscribers, will be published next week. Thank you as always for your support. Victoria x Writer Lytton Strachey, one of the key members of the Bloomsbury Group, once wrote that to truly know a writer you should read their correspondence. Strachey himself wrote innumerable letters to his lovers, friends and acquaintances.

Sylvia Townsend Warner was a twentieth-century English musicologist, poet, novelist and short story writer, but is probably best known for two of her novels Lolly Willowes and The Corner That Held Them. Born on 6th December 1893 to George Townsend Warner, a Harrow schoolmaster, and his wife Nora Eleanor Mary Hudleston, she was an only child and curious and intelligent from a young age.

50% off, FOREVER! This is a Bonus Diaries & Letters Post. The next Beyond Bloomsbury biography will be published next week. In the meantime, all free biographies in the archive are now open for comments or questions. You can dive into the archive here. Artist Dora Carrington, born Dora de Houghton Carrington on the 29th of March 1893, is not generally considered to have been a key member of the Bloomsbury Group.

Share Beyond Bloomsbury The following is a Bonus Diaries & Letters Post. The next biography will be published soon. Short story writer, essayist and journalist Katherine Mansfield was born in Wellington, New Zealand on the 14th of October 1888. She travelled to England to attend Queen’s College, London when she was just thirteen years of age then, following a number of years travelling across Europe, returned to England permanently in 1908.

Share Beyond Bloomsbury Vanessa Bell, artist and founding member of the Bloomsbury Group - a circle of artists, writers, intellectuals and friends - met Roger Fry for the third time in January 1910, at Cambridge railway station. They had met briefly twice before, the first time at King’s College, Cambridge, the second at a dinner party hosted by mutual friend Desmond MacCarthy.

Share Beyond Bloomsbury The following is a Bonus Diaries & Letters Post. The next biography, on the love and friendship of Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry, will be published later this week. The birthday special offer - 50% off, FOREVER! - is available until tomorrow. 50% off, FOREVER! Bloomsbury artists Vanessa Bell and Roger Fry met for the first time in 1910 when Roger was invited to lecture at one of Vanessa’s Friday Club meetings.

Share Beyond Bloomsbury Dearest Readers… I’m delighted to announce that Beyond Bloomsbury will be reaching its one-year birthday next week - Tuesday 14th of March. I began this newsletter twelve months ago on my own birthday (age —) and it’s been a wonderful adventure. To celebrate this special milestone, I am launching a four-day special offer - 50% off, FOREVER! - which will end on the 14th of March.

Share Beyond Bloomsbury Bonus Diaries & Letters Post. The next biography for free and paid subscribers will be published next week. You can also read a free biography of Dora Carrington at Dora Carrington: Artist in Focus. Thank you as always for reading, and for your support. With Love, Victoria Artist Dora Carrington met Bloomsberry writer and critic Lytton Strachey at a party at Asheham House - Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s weekend retreat near Lewes in Sussex.

Share Beyond Bloomsbury The following biography is for paid subscribers only. The next biography, for both free and paid subscribers, will be published on the 14th of March. Thank you, Victoria x Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot was born on 26th September 1888 into a distinguished family in St Louis, Missouri. He studied Literature at Harvard, earning a Bachelor's and a Master of Arts, before moving to England in 1914 to study Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford.