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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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    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

  4. 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.

  5. 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    Lytton Strachey's brother, James, gave Holroyd permission to use previously unpublished work.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. The second volume, The Years of Achievement 1910–1932, arrived the next year.

  6. The Aristocrats - AOL

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    But the American ruling class can bring out my inner Lytton Strachey, at least as portrayed by Jonathan Pryce in Carrington: “God damn, confound, blast, and f–k the upper classes.” Kennedys ...

  7. 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.

  8. Lytton - Wikipedia

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    A number of important people have held the name Lytton, both as a surname and as a first name, as in Lytton Strachey. Lytton (surname) Lytton Strachey; Earl of Lytton (being Edward Bulwer-Lytton and his progeny agnatic, a family named Lytton)

  9. 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 ...