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Jane Maria Strachey, Lady Strachey (13 March 1840 – 14 December 1928) was an English suffragist and writer. [1] [2] Her father was a British colonial administrator; Jane married her father's secretary, Sir Richard Strachey, and ten of their children survived into adulthood.
- 14 December 1928 (aged 88)
- Sir Richard Strachey (1859–1908; his death)
- Jane Maria Grant, 13 March 1840, Sea off the Cape of Good Hope
16. Aug. 2021 · A new book highlights the writings of Jane Strachey, a middle-class woman whose husband worked for the famed Howe family. Julie Flavell. Author, The Howe Dynasty: The Untold Story of a Military...
About this artwork. Jane Maria Strachey was born on board the 'Earl of Hardwick' off the Cape of Good Hope on 13 March 1840. Considerably younger than her husband, her father's secretary Sir Richard Strachey, she became his second wife in 1859. A tall and impressive looking woman, she designed her own, slightly unconventional clothes.
Jane Strachey’s life, as she told a luncheon at the Lyceum Club in 1910, had, like her husband’s, been spent ‘in the arduous and noble service of rescuing the natives of India from intolerable oppression & in building up such an example of government by foreign conquerors as the world has never before seen’.
Jane Strachey's ideas and persona, as well as her absent room, are present in A Room of One's Own . She is glimpsed as the fictional character of Mrs. Se ton, mother of the fictional Newnham scholar Mary Se ton. The two are not identical, but we can recognize Jane in the description of Mrs. Seton's.
Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey (1840-1928), Wife of Sir Richard Strachey. Sitter associated with 47 portraits. Identify (Giles) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey. Sitter in 144 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 5 portraits.
Lady Jane Maria Strachey (1840-1928) was born on a ship off the Cape of Good Hope in 1840. Her father was the Anglo-Indian administrator Sir John Grant of Rothiemurchus in Speyside, who would...
