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  2. Lytton Strachey - Wikipedia

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    Giles Lytton Strachey (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; [1] 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.

  3. Eminent Victorians - Wikipedia

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    With the publication of Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey set out to breathe life into the Victorian era for future generations to read. Up until that point, as Strachey remarked in the preface, Victorian biographies had been "as familiar as the cortège of the undertaker, and wear the same air of slow, funereal barbarism." Strachey defied ...

  4. Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography - Wikipedia

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    Lytton Strachey's brother, James, gave Holroyd permission to use previously unpublished work. [ 2 ] The Strachey biography's first of two volumes, The Unknown Years 1880–1910 , was released in 1967.

  5. Bloomsbury Group - Wikipedia

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    Lytton Strachey wrote his biographies of two queens, Queen Victoria (1921) and Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (1928). Desmond MacCarthy and Leonard Woolf engaged in friendly rivalry as literary editors, respectively of the New Statesman and The Nation and Athenaeum , thus fuelling animosities that saw Bloomsbury dominating the cultural ...

  6. Dora Carrington - Wikipedia

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    Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.

  7. Dorothy Bussy - Wikipedia

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    Lady Strachey and daughters, ca. 1893 (Dorothy is 2nd from left) Dorothy Bussy was a member of the Strachey family, one of ten children of Jane Strachey and the British Empire soldier and administrator Lt-Gen Sir Richard Strachey. Writer and critic Lytton Strachey and the first English translator of Freud, James Strachey, were her

  8. List of Bloomsbury Group people - Wikipedia

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    Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge and Lytton Stratchey at Ham Spray House. Also during the First World War, Lytton Strachey and Dora Carrington moved to Tidmarsh Mill House, Berkshire. Later (in a ménage à trois with straight Ralph Partridge) they moved to Ham Spray House, Wiltshire. Roger Senhouse was Lytton Strachey's last lover.

  9. Strachey - Wikipedia

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    Richard Strachey (1817–1908) was the husband of the suffragette Jane Maria Strachey (1840–1928) and father of 10 surviving children, including: Lytton Strachey (1880–1932) was a writer and thinker and among his prominent works are Eminent Victorians and a celebrated biography of Queen Victoria.