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Ray Strachey

(1887-1940), Feminist activist, artist and writer

Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)

Sitter associated with 64 portraits
Artist associated with 99 portraits
Born Rachel, Ray was the daughter of Frank and Mary Costelloe; her mother later married Bernard Berenson. Formidably clever from her schooldays, she read mathematics at Cambridge and studied electrical engineering at Oxford before committing herself to women's suffrage. She was Secretary of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Chairman of the Women's Service Bureau and a joint-founder of the League of Nations Union. She was an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate, but acted briefly as political secretary to Nancy Astor.

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Pippa Strachey, by Ray Strachey - NPG x88556

Pippa Strachey

by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, Summer 1916
NPG x88556

'Durbins' (home of Roger Fry), by Ray Strachey, and by  Oliver Strachey - NPG Ax161224

'Durbins' (home of Roger Fry)

by Ray Strachey, and by Oliver Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1916
NPG Ax161224

Pippa Strachey, by Ray Strachey - NPG Ax160938

Pippa Strachey

by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1916
NPG Ax160938

Pippa Strachey, by Ray Strachey - NPG Ax160939

Pippa Strachey

by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, Summer 1916
NPG Ax160939

Oliver Strachey, by Ray Strachey - NPG Ax160950

Oliver Strachey

by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1917
NPG Ax160950

Pippa Strachey, by Ray Strachey - NPG x88550

Pippa Strachey

by Ray Strachey
4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inch negative, 1921
NPG x88550

Pippa Strachey, by Ray Strachey - NPG Ax160941

Pippa Strachey

by Ray Strachey
vintage snapshot print, 1921
NPG Ax160941

Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey), by Ray Strachey - NPG x88549

Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey)

by Ray Strachey
4 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch negative, probably 1923
NPG x88549

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