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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.
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
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.
Lytton Strachey's brother, James, gave Holroyd permission to use previously unpublished work.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.
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 ...
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.
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)
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 ...