Ray Strachey
(1887-1940), Feminist activist, artist and writerRachel 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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albumen print on card, 1887
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Ray Strachey
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albumen print on card, 1887
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Ray Strachey
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albumen print on card, 1887
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Alys Whitall Russell (née Pearsall Smith); Ray Strachey
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albumen print on card, 1887
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Ray Strachey
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platinum print, 1889
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platinum print on card, 1889
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albumen print, September 1890
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platinum print on card, 1890
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platinum print on card, 1891
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'Friday's Hill: Aunty Loo, Ray, Karin & Rumpty at the front door'
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platinum print on card, circa 1892
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gelatin printing-out paper print on card, 1894
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gelatin printing-out paper print on card, 1894
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gelatin printing-out paper print, 1894
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'A Quaker wedding' (The marriage of Bertrand Russell and Alys Pearsall Smith)
after Richard Morris Smith
photograph of drawing, 13 December 1894
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Frank Costelloe with Karin and Ray
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vintage snapshot print, circa 1895
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Marianne Costelloe (née Conn); Benjamin Francis Conn ('Frank') Costelloe; Ray Strachey
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vintage snapshot print, circa 1895
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Ray Strachey and Karin Stephen
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albumen print, circa 1896
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Mary Costelloe with her daughters Karin and Ray
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gelatin silver print on card, 1896
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'Camping out at Friday's Hill'
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vintage print, August 1898
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vintage bromide print, 1898
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bromide copy print, circa 1900
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vintage print on card, circa 1900
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vintage bromide print, circa 1903
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vintage bromide print, September 1903
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matte bromide print on card, 1904
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gelatin silver print, circa 1905
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bromide print, 1908
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printing-out paper print, 1908
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Ray Strachey; Anna Howard Shaw; Ellie Rendel
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vintage print, 1908
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bromide print, 1909
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platinum print, 1909
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platinum print, 1911
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gelatin silver print, 1911
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Julia Frances Strachey; Ray Strachey
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gelatin printing-out paper print, 1911
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vintage snapshot print, mid 1910s
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vintage snapshot print, circa 1913
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vintage snapshot print, circa 1914
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vintage snapshot print, 1914
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Barbara Strachey; Ray Strachey
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bromide print, 1915
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by Barbara Strachey
bromide print, 1916
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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 Tatum Smith (née Whitall) (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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