Dadie Rylands
(1902-1999), Literary scholar; Fellow of King's College, Cambridge; theatre director and actorGeorge Humphrey Wolferstan ('Dadie') Rylands
Sitter in 6 portraits
Literary scholar and theatre director. Rylands became a protégé of Lytton Strachey at Cambridge, who introduced him to the Bloomsbury group. In 1924 he worked for six months with Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. He was elected Fellow of King's College in 1927; his rooms, where he lived for the rest of his life, were decorated by Dora Carrington and play a part in Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own (1929). An inspirational lecturer in English Literature, Rylands's most popular work was the Shakespeare anthology, The Ages of Man (1939).
Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford; Lytton Strachey; Dadie Rylands
by Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, 1926
NPG x25115
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide contact print, 1935
NPG x31087
by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print on card mount, 1937
NPG x31086
by Granville Davies
bromide print, August 1985
NPG x25016
Dadie Rylands and an unknown man
by Granville Davies
bromide print, August 1985
NPG x25017
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1930s?
NPG D224
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