English woman, Dora de Houghton Carrington (1893-1932) was an artist and a Bloomsbury bohemian who loved and was loved by both men and women. She even managed to make her name interesting. She was born Dora de Houghton Carrington but was known in Bloomsbury only by her surname. She was the fourth of five children born to Samuel Carrington and Charlotte Houghton, and in 1902 the family moved to Bedford, England where she attended a girls' high school, which emphasized sports, music, and drawing. The teachers encouraged her drawing and her parents paid for her to attend extra drawing classes in the afternoons. In 1910 she won a scholarship to the Slade School of Art in London and studied there with Henr...