English artist Dora Carrington was BOTD in 1893. Born in Hereford, she won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art, where she cut her hair short, began referring to herself by her surname and attracted attention for her paintings of female nudes. She had a turbulent affair with fellow student Mark Gertler, rebelling against the assumption that she sublimate her talents to support him. Through Gertler, she met the Bloomsbury Group, completing many portraits of its key figures. After being commissioned to create woodprints for Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press, she was invited, cautiously, into Bloomsbury inner circles, and was one of the founding members of the Omega Workshops. In 1916, she met the (very gay) writer Lytton Strachey, forming a close friendship and living together for the rest of their lives. In 1918, she fell in love with the dishy Ralph Partridge, who also caught the eye of Strachey, and they lived together in a loose ménage à trois. She and Partridge married in 1921, in a ceremony paid for by Strachey, who accompanied them on their honeymoon to Venice. They moved to Ham Spray House in Wiltshire, living together while pursuing relationships with others. Despite her devotion to Strachey, Carrington had affairs with American diplobrat Henrietta Bingham and Strachey’s niece Julia, and began identifying as lesbian. Somewhat confusingly, she later had an affair with Partridge’s best friend Bernard Penrose, having an abortion after she became pregnant. Carrington devoted herself to Strachey’s care, nursing him through his final illness. She committed suicide in 1932, two months after Strachey’s death. She was 38. Carrington never exhibited her work during her lifetime, appearing content to be an artist without courting an audience, and undertaking private commissions for wealthy friends including the Mitford and Guinness families. She received her first solo exhibition in 1970, and has since been recognised for her surrealist landscapes and work in the decorative arts. She was played by Emma Thompson in the 1995 biopic Carrington.