Editing Lytton Strachey (section)

==Personal life and sexuality==
Strachey spoke openly about his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends and had relationships with a variety of men including [[Ralph Partridge]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}} He had a "passionate love affair" with the economist [[John Maynard Keynes]], another Bloomsbury member, who was bisexual.<ref>{{cite web |title=Duncan Grant: Lytton Strachey |url=https://www.charleston.org.uk/object/lytton-strachey/ |website=Charleston |access-date=12 February 2025}}</ref>

[[File:StracheyCarrington.jpg|thumb|upright|Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey at Ham Spray]]

Strachey met the painter [[Dora Carrington]] during the First World War and they had a strong but platonic relationship thereafter until his death. They eventually established a permanent home together at Ham Spray House, where Carrington would paint and Strachey would educate her in literature.<ref>Holroyd, 447.</ref> In 1921, Carrington agreed to marry Partridge, not for love but to secure a three-way relationship. Partridge eventually formed a relationship with [[Frances Partridge|Frances Marshall]], another Bloomsbury member.<ref>Holroyd, 485.</ref> Shortly after Strachey died, Carrington took her own life. Partridge married Marshall in 1933. Strachey was mainly interested sexually in Partridge, as well as in various other young men,<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/Archive/Article/0,4273,3806156,00.html Frances Partridge, Bloomsbury groupie] – Guardian Unlimited. Retrieved on 23 December 2007.</ref> including a secret [[sadomasochistic]] relationship with [[Roger Senhouse]], later the head of the publishing house [[Secker & Warburg]].<ref name="telegraph">{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3638752/Bloomsburys-final-secret.html|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|title=Bloomsbury's final secret|date=14 March 2005|access-date=29 December 2016|archive-date=3 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203143105/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3638752/Bloomsburys-final-secret.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Strachey's letters, edited by [[Paul Levy (journalist)|Paul Levy]], were published in 2005.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3638752/Bloomsburys-final-secret.html|title=Bloomsbury's final secret|last=Levy|first=Paul|author-link=Paul Levy (journalist)|journal=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|date=2005-03-14|access-date=2018-01-15|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=3 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230203143105/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3638752/Bloomsburys-final-secret.html|url-status=live}}</ref>