Writer and critic Lytton Strachey, and psychoanalyst James Strachey, who worked on the first translation of Freud into English, were her brothers. Married to the painter Simon Bussy in 1903 - an alliance that caused some tension in her family circle, due to Bussy's lower middle-class origins - Dorothy Buss Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) was the daughter of famed British soldier and colonial administrator Sir Richard Strachey, and his wife Lady Jane Strachey, an author and a supporter of woman's suffrage. She was educated at the Marie Souvestre girls' school at Les Ruches, Fontainebleau, in France, and later at the Allenwood Academy in England, and worked for a number of years as a teacher, counting a young Eleanor Roosevelt amongst her pupils. Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) was the daughter of famed British soldier and colonial administrator Sir Richard Strachey, and his wife Lady Jane Strachey, an author and a supporter of woman's suffrage.
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