Artist. She was the daughter of Samuel Carrington, a railway engineer, and his wife Charlotte, née Houghton. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and designed the wood-cut decorations for Leonard and Virginia Woolf's first Hogarth publications. She had affairs with the painter Mark Gertler and writer Gerald Brenan and married Ralph Partridge, but the most important relationship of her life was with Lytton Strachey. After Strachey's death, she shot herself at Ham Spray House where she had lived with Strachey and Partridge. Her remains were cremated, and her ashes scattered in the garden of Ham Spray House.
Artist. She was the daughter of Samuel Carrington, a railway engineer, and his wife Charlotte, née Houghton. She trained at the Slade School of Fine Art and designed the wood-cut decorations for Leonard and Virginia Woolf's first Hogarth publications. She had affairs with the painter Mark Gertler and writer Gerald Brenan and married Ralph Partridge, but the most important relationship of her life was with Lytton Strachey. After Strachey's death, she shot herself at Ham Spray House where she had lived with Strachey and Partridge. Her remains were cremated, and her ashes scattered in the garden of Ham Spray House.
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