Barbara Strachey

Barbara Halpern Strachey (17 July 1912 – 15 October 1999 in Oxford, England) was a British author.

Barbara Strachey was born to parents Oliver Strachey, a cryptographer in World War I and World War II, and the feminist politician, writer, and amateur painter Ray Strachey. She attended schools in Switzerland, Vienna, and Oxford High School. Later she worked for the BBC for a period, and was involved in the transformation of the General Overseas Service into the World Service in 1965. She talks primarily about her mother, Ray Strachey, but also about her own interest in the Women's Employment Federation and her memories of family life when growing up.

Books Strachey published a number of books:

Remarkable Relations (1980) Journeys of Frodo (1981) Mary Berenson – A Self-Portrait from Her Diaries and Letters (1984, with Jayne Samuels) The Strachey Line (1985) L'atlas du Seigneur des Anneaux (with Jérôme Lereculey) The Cause: A Short History of the Women's Movement in Great Britain (with Ray Strachey)