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.
Ray Strachey; Barbara Strachey
by Unknown photographer
matte collodion printing-out paper print, 1917
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Barbara Strachey; Ray Strachey; Christopher Strachey; Mary Berenson (née Smith)
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 1918
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Christopher Strachey; Barbara Strachey; Ray Strachey
by Elliott & Fry
vintage bromide print, 1922
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by Unknown photographer
sepia-toned bromide print, 1923
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Ray Strachey; Christopher Strachey; Barbara Strachey
by Special Press
vintage bromide print, 1928
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by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1928
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by Unknown photographer
bromide print, 1928
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by Unknown photographer
vintage bromide print, 1935
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Roger Hultin; Ray Strachey
by Unknown photographer
bromide copy print, 1936-1937
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by Unknown photographer
bromide contact print, 1936
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by Unknown photographer
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1938-1939
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Mary Berenson (née Smith); Roger Hultin; Ray Strachey
by Unknown photographer
matte bromide postcard print, 1938
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by Unknown photographer
bromide contact print, 1938
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by Ramsey & Muspratt
bromide print, 1940
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by Ray Strachey
oil on board, circa 1925
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Unknown woman formerly catalogued as Ray Strachey
by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1925-1930
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by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1925-1930
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by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1930s
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by Ray Strachey
oil on board, 1930s
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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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