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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 ...
Aug 6, 2018 · Lytton Strachey’s explosive biographies demolished reputations – not even Florence Nightingale escaped his wrath. But what is his impact on life writing? Kathryn Hughes. Mon 6 Aug 2018 03.00...
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.
Mar 20, 2005 · The letters of Lytton Strachey vividly capture the gossipy, saucy lives of the Bloomsbury group, says David Jays. David Jays. Sat 19 Mar 2005 20.15 EST. The Letters of Lytton Strachey....
Jan 30, 2018 · January 31, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. EST. One hundred years ago Lytton Strachey brought out "Eminent Victorians," four novella-length biographical essays, composed in burnished, exquisitely ironic...
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