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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.
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 ...
Lytton Strachey, 1911-12. Date: between 1911 and 1912. Source: NPG Ax140336: Author: Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) Licensing. This is a faithful photographic ...
Carrington's portrait of E. M. Forster, 1924–25 Dora Carrington; Ralph Partridge; Lytton Strachey; Oliver Strachey; Frances Partridge (née Marshall), 1923.. Carrington was not a member of the Bloomsbury Group, though she was closely associated with Bloomsbury and, more generally, with "Bohemian" attitudes, through her long relationship with the homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, whom she ...
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 ...
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.
Based on the "Betrayal" true crime podcast, the three-part special interviewed Jason's estranged wife Ashley Lytton, his 18-year-old stepdaughter, Avaya, and more people in their inner circle who ...
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