TY - BOOK AU - Gerzina,Gretchen TI - Carrington: : a life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932 SN - 0719546885 U1 - 759.2 PY - 1989/// CY - London PB - John Murray KW - Carrington, Dora de Houghton, KW - Painters KW - England KW - Biography N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-329) and index; Part I. Youth; Childhood; 1910-11 : the young art student; The first triangle : 1912; Sex and self-doubt; Old trouble and new friends; Part II. Arrangements; The second triangle; London and Lytton; Separations and unions; Tidmarsh Mill house : 1917-18; Ralph : 1919; Commitment : 1920-21; Part III. Rearrangements; Gerald; Picking up the pieces; Retrenchment : 1925; Compromise; Part IV. Love and loss : 1928-32; Fear and love : 1928; Disaster averted : 1929; The medal reversed : 1930; Foreshadowing : 1931; The two-handed engine N2 - Since her suicide in 1932, Carrington's reputation as a painter has grown and this biography presents a sympathetic and surprising portrait of an unusual and talented woman. Although not a member of the Bloomsbury group, she was close to several members of the coterie ER -