The family spent summers in Newport, Rhode Island, amidst the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and numerous other wealthy elites of American society during the Gilded Age.

Leonard Moorhead Thomas was a Yale University graduate who had worked in the diplomatic service in Rome and Madrid and served with the United States Army in Europe during World War I, earning the Croix de Guerre.

[5] She then turned her writing skills to the creation of theatrical plays including a 1921 Broadway production titled Clair de lune.

Based on L'Homme qui rit by Victor Hugo, her play starred her husband and his sister Ethel Barrymore.

In 1921, Strange was among the first to join the Lucy Stone League, an organization that fought for women to preserve their maiden names after marriage.

[7] During the second half of the 1930s, Strange hosted a poetry and music program on New York radio station WOR that gained a strong audience.

Starting in the summer of 1940 until her death, Strange was in a long-term relationship with Margaret Wise Brown, the author of many children's books.

[9] Strange was a registered communist and – until Hitler's June 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union – part of the America First Committee's weekly radio show.

[10] Robin had been buried in Indiana with his predeceased lover,[citation needed] but Strange's will asked for his body to be moved to be with the rest of the family.