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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 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.
Apr 10, 2024 · Lytton Strachey (born March 1, 1880, London—died Jan. 21, 1932, Ham Spray House, near Hungerford, Berkshire, Eng.) was an English biographer and critic who opened a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past and especially to the monumental life-and-letters volumes of Victorian ...
May 18, 2018 · Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era. Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880. He was the eleventh of thirteen children of an upper-middle-class family.
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a historian, literary critic, and Bloomsbury wit whose ironic prose style and sense of rupture with the Victorian past helped to define English literary modernism.
Jan 16, 2017 · The 100 best nonfiction books: No 50 – Eminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey (1918) Lytton Strachey’s partisan, often inaccurate but brilliant demolitions of four great 19th-century...
Overview. Lytton Strachey. (1880—1932) biographer and literary reviewer. Quick Reference. (1880–1932) British biographer. The son of the distinguished soldier and Indian administrator Sir Richard Strachey, Lytton Strachey took after his mother in his artistic leanings.
Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group ), first published in 1918, and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had, until then, been regarded as heroes ...
May 28, 2023 · Lytton Strachey was an early twentieth-century English writer and biographer, and a key member of the Bloomsbury Group. He is probably best known for his rejection of commemorative Victorian biography and for writing about his subjects in works such as Queen Victoria and Eminent Victorians with irony and humour.
Feb 15, 2018 · Lytton Strachey – first of the great literary biographers. Michael Dirda. Feb 15, 2018 – 11.00pm. One hundred years ago Lytton Strachey brought out Eminent Victorians, four novella-length ...
March 1, 1880 · London, England, UK. Died. January 21, 1932 · Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK (cancer) Birth name. Giles Lytton Strachey. Mini Bio. Lytton Strachey was born on March 1, 1880 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Gloriana (1984), Gloriana (2013) and Gloriana (2000).
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