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Dorothy the orphan
Born on June 6, 1910, Frederica Dorothy Violet Carrington lost her father in 1913, when she was three years old. Seven years later his mother died of cancer. Now an orphan, she is entrusted to her mother's family in the English countryside of Gloucestershire where she learns to ride horses and hunt.
1: His father (23/08/1844 – 22/03/1913)
Lieutenant General Sir Frederick Carrington, Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George led the « Rhodesian Field Force » in South Africa during the 2nd South African War. He helped establish the British colony of Rhodesia; he was himself the son of Samuel Carrington, a wealthy cotton merchant from Manchester.
2: Dorothy Carrington's youth book: « Shakespeare complete works »
3: Dorothy child with her maternal grandmother in the English countryside
The countryside, dogs, horses, sports and many books: the traditional childhood of a little girl in the English gentry at the beginning of the 20th century.
4: Dorothy Carrington's youth book: « The Complete works of Tennyson »
5: His mother (1872- 17/06/1921)
Susan Margaret Elwes is the daughter of renowned botanist and entomologist Henry J. Elwes who led the first scientific expedition to Tibet. She married Frederick Carrington in 1897 and gave birth to her first daughter, Katherine Mary, in 1899. In 1909 she developed breast cancer. Doctors recommend a new pregnancy to eradicate the disease. She gave birth to Frederica Dorothy Violet on 6 June 1910 in Perrotts Brook, Gloucestershire.
6: Dorothy Carrington's youth book: « Sonnets from the Portuguese » (first page with Shelley's poem from her hand poem ‘Adonais’)
7: Dorothy Carrington's youth book from Wordsworth: Poetry and Prose (annotated book of technical literary commentary)
8: Dorothy child, playing with her dog in front of a mansion
9: Dorothy child with a tennis racket
Sir FRANCIS ROSE: the birth of Lady Rose
In 1942, visiting the exhibition « Imaginative Art since the War » at the Leicester Galleries in London as a journalist, Dorothy met a surrealist painter, Sir Francis Rose, the fourth Baronet of the Roses of Montreal. He asks for her that same evening. It was done in 1943. Francis Rose began his career creating sets and costumes for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Francis Rose later collaborated with Picabia and Fernand Léger. He exhibited in 1930 in Paris, with Salvador Dali, in the gallery of Marie Cuttoli. Gertrud Stein, her friend, collects her works. With her he rubs shoulders with the international artistic elite, he paints his self-portrait and designs for her and her entourage illustrations of books.
1: Art book by André Malraux offered and signed by Francis Rose to Dorothy for his birthday in 1954. Francis, who affectionately named Dorothy « mouse », depicted him in his bed in Ajaccio.
2: Wedding photograph « An engagement »
3: Photograph of Dorothy and Francis
4: « Paris France » by Gertrude Stein
5: « The Alice B Toklas cook book » (illustrated by Francis Rose)
6: « Operas and Plays » by Gertrude Sein (dedication of G. Stein to F. Rose)
THE MUSE, the sophisticated London MUSE
« Even though she had a certain talent for writing, she forgot that her powerful charm lay in her beauty and feminine presence, capable of captivating a man by the delicacy of her elegance, the perfection of her pose or the illusion of the disorder of a curl of her hair. » Francis Rose in Saying Life in 1961. Dorothy poses for photographers like Pearl Freeman, she becomes the face of a beauty cream for the famous brand of the time, Pond's.
1: Photographs of Dorothy by Derek Adkins
2: Dorothy London Underground Map
3: Photograph of Lady Rose praising the merits of the Pond's Cream brand cream. (Evoked in the text of his book The Traveler's Eye)
4: Copy of the portrait of the young Dorothy signed Pearl Freeman
5: « The Glass of Fashion » by Cecil Beaton
6: Copy of the 1946 portrait of Dorothy by Francis Goodman
Traveller writer
The artistic collaboration begins between Dorothy and Francis Rose. She writes, he draws. He illustrated his first work in 1945, Evelina and the bag of Crimson Seed, a children's book, an experience they repeated in 1948 in a second children's book, The Mouse and the Mermaid. In 1947 she dedicated to Francis Rose The Traveler's Eye. This book aims to travel the world from East to West as it appears in the story of brita traveler writers timeline My photos