Ray Strachey (1887-1940), Feminist activist and writer
Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
Sitter in 40 portraits
Artist associated with 77 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.
Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
albumen print on card, 1887
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
albumen print on card, 1887
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
albumen print on card, 1887
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
platinum print, 1889
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by Unknown photographer
albumen print, September 1890
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Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
platinum print on card, 1891
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by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver printing-out paper print on card, 1894
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by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver printing-out paper print on card, 1894
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by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver printing-out paper print, 1894
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'Camping out at Friday's Hill'
by Unknown photographer
gelatin silver printing-out paper print, August 1895
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Ray Strachey and Karin Stephen
by Unknown photographer
albumen print, circa 1896
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Mary Costelloe with her daughters Karin and Ray
by Unknown photographer
vintage gelatin silver print on card, 1896
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by Unknown photographer
bromide print, circa 1902
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by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, circa 1903
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Ray, Mary, Karin, Logan, Lady Henry Somerset and H.W.S.
by Unknown photographer
matte bromide print on card, 1904
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Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1908
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Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
printing-out paper print, 1908
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Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1909
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Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe)
by Unknown photographer
platinum print, 1909
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Rachel Pearsall Conn ('Ray') Strachey (née Costelloe) in her Rover
by Unknown photographer
printing-out paper print, 1910
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Strachey
Related People
Mary Berenson (née Smith) (mother)
Benjamin Francis Conn ('Frank') Costelloe (father)
Mary Conn Costelloe (grandmother)
(Karin) Judith Henderson (née Stephen) (niece)
Roger Hultin (grandson)
Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith) (aunt)
Hannah Smith (née Whitall) (Mrs Pearsall Smith) (grandmother)
(Lloyd) Logan Pearsall Smith (uncle)
Robert Pearsall Smith (grandfather)
Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (daughter)
Christopher Strachey (son)
Oliver Strachey (husband)
Ann Davies Synge (née Stephen) (niece)
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