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Jane Maria Strachey, Lady Strachey (13 March 1840 – 14 December 1928) was an English suffragist and writer. [1] [2] Her father was a British colonial administrator; Jane married her father's secretary, Sir Richard Strachey, and ten of their children survived into adulthood. She was an outspoken advocate for the right of women to vote, and ...
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.
A young Julia Strachey in 1913 at the suffrage parade in Littlehampton. Julia Strachey was born in Allahabad, India on 14 August 1901 to Ruby (née Mayer) and Oliver Strachey following their marriage in January 1901. [1] She spent the first six years of her life in India where she had a pet dog called Joseph, [2] before travelling to London. [3]
Barbara Strachey (1912–1999), writer; daughter of Oliver and his second wife Ray; Christopher Strachey (1916–1975), computer scientist; son of Oliver and his second wife Ray; Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (1865–1960), wife of French painter Simon Bussy, wrote one novel, Olivia, about a lesbian relationship. Pippa Strachey (1872–1968 ...
Born at Sutton Court, Chew Magna, Somerset, on 12 August 1812, he was eldest of the six sons of Edward Strachey (1774–1832) of the Bengal service of the East India Company, son of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet, and his wife Julia Woodburn, third daughter of Major-general William Kirkpatrick.
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 ...
Henry Strachey was born on December 6, 1772, to Henry Strachey (later 1st Baronet) and his wife Jane Kelsall Latham Strachey. As a youth, he attended Westminster School and then Edinburgh University. In 1790, he joined the East India Company and arrived in India a couple of years later. [1]
Esther Murphy Arthur as a girl with her mother, Mrs. Patrick Francis Murphy, née Anna Ryan, between 1910 and 1915. Murphy was born on October 22, 1897, the daughter of Patrick Francis Murphy (1858–1931), owner of the Mark Cross Company, sellers of fine leather goods, and Anna Elizabeth Ryan (c. 1858–1932).