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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. 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.

  4. Category:Strachey family - Wikipedia

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    The Strachey family, originally from Sutton Court, Somerset, England, a number of whom were associated with the Bloomsbury Group. Pages in category "Strachey family" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total.

  5. Richard Strachey - Wikipedia

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    Strachey was about 37 years old when he married Caroline Bowles, who died in 1855, within a year of their wedding. Nearly four years were to pass before he married again. On 4 January 1859, the 42-year-old Richard married 18-year-old Jane Maria Grant , to be known henceforth as Jane, Lady Strachey (1840–1928).

  6. Eminent Victorians - Wikipedia

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    Strachey developed the idea for Eminent Victorians in 1912, when he was living on occasional journalism and writing dilettante plays and verse for his Bloomsbury friends. . He went to live in the country at East Ilsley and started work on a book then called Victorian Silhouettes, containing miniature biographies of a dozen notable Victorian personalit

  7. Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography - Wikipedia

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    The Strachey biography's first of two volumes, The Unknown Years 1880–1910, was released in 1967. The second volume, The Years of Achievement 1910–1932 , arrived the next year. He revisited the work by popular request and in 1971 released two revised volumes for Penguin Press : Lytton Strachey: A Biography and Lytton Strachey and the ...

  8. Pernel Strachey - Wikipedia

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    Strachey was born in Clapham Common in London in 1876. She came from a large family led by Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey and the suffragist Jane Maria Strachey.Her mother was a friend of Millicent Garrett Fawcett who had co-founded Newnham College in Cambridge. [1]

  9. Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie - Wikipedia

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    Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie, PC (30 October 1858 – 25 July 1936), known as Sir Edward Strachey, Bt, between 1901 and 1911, was a British Liberal politician. He was a member of the Liberal administrations of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and H. H. Asquith between 1905 and 1915.