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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.
Lytton Strachey, 1911-12. Date: between 1911 and 1912. Source: NPG Ax140336: Author: Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938) Licensing. This is a faithful photographic ...
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
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: A Critical Biography is a 1967–68 two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, often seen as the author's magnum opus. He published a revised version in 1994 with a revised subtitle, The New Biography .
At that, Lytton went back to living his unassuming life at Manitou Beach, pumping gas at his full service station, wearing a coin changer on his belt and having a smile for everyone who stopped by.
Strachey remained close to her family. She nursed her mother in the 1920s, and in 1932 nursed her brother Lytton through his final illness. [4] She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1951, and finally retired that year as secretary of the Fawcett Society. She spent her remaining years working through family papers. [2] [1]
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 ...