[3][1] She attended the all-girls' Bedford High School which emphasized art, and her parents paid for her to receive extra lessons in drawing.

[1] In 1910, she went to the Slade School of Art in central London where she subsequently won a scholarship and several other prizes; her fellow students included Dorothy Brett, Paul Nash, C. R. W. Nevinson and Mark Gertler.

[1] Plans, with John and Paul Nash, for a cycle of frescoes for a church in Uxbridge near London came to nothing with the start of the War.

[1] After graduating from the Slade, although short of money, Carrington stayed in London, living in Soho with a studio in Chelsea.

Distinguished by her cropped pageboy hair style (before it was fashionable) and somewhat androgynous appearance, she was troubled by her sexuality; she is believed by some to have had an affair with Henrietta Bingham.

In June 1918, Virginia Woolf wrote of Carrington in her diary: "She is odd from her mixture of impulse & self consciousness.

Her lesser-known work included painted pub signs and murals, ceramics, fireplaces, and tin trunks.

On the day that she agreed to marry Partridge she wrote to Strachey, who was in Italy, what has been described as "one of the most moving love letters in the English language".

[15] Dora Carrington died by suicide on 11 March 1932, two months after Strachey's death, using a gun borrowed from her friend, Hon.

An accomplished painter of portraits, landscape and still-life, Carrington also worked in applied and decorative arts, painting on any type of surface she had at hand including inn signs, tiles and furniture.

In 1970 David Garnett published a selection of letters and extracts from her diary, since which time critical and popular appreciation of her work has risen sharply.

[16] In 1978, Sir John Rothenstein, for nearly thirty years Director of the Tate Gallery, London, called Dora Carrington "the most neglected serious painter of her time.

"[17] Carrington was one of the five artists featured in the television series Five Women Painters made in 1989 by the Arts Council and Channel 4,[18] with accompanying book published by Lennard.