Background
She was born in London, née Sargant. A brother was the sculptor Francis William Sargant.
She was born in London, née Sargant. A brother was the sculptor Francis William Sargant.
She studied in Paris under Luc-Olivier Merson and at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros.
They had two children: Philip Sargant Florence, the economist, and Alix Strachey, the psychoanalyst and translator of Freud. After her husband"s death by drowning in 1891, she moved to Marlow, Buckinghamshire, and built her house "Lordswood" (1899–1900), where she lived until 1940. She painted fresco decorations at the Old School, Oakham, Rutland (c1909-1914), and at Bournville Junior School near Birmingham (1912-1914).
In 1940, she wrote Colour Company-Ordination, a work on the history, theory and aesthetics of colour.
She edited two volumes of the Papers of the Society of Painters in Tempera. She died at Twickenham, Middlesex.
With the Cambridge scholar and editor Charles Kay Ogden, she published a book on militarism and feminism, which argued that women had the prerogative and responsibility to combat international militarism.
She was a member of the New English Art Club and the Society of Painters in Tempera. She was a suffragist, a supporter of the Women"s Tax Resistance League, and a member of the committee for the Hague Peace Congress of 1915.