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Schlank, dunkel, mit Falsett-Stimme und von gefürchtetem trockenem Humor war Lytton Strachey eine der faszinierendsten Persönlichkeiten der Bloomsbury Group. E. M. Forster setzte ihm als Viscount Risley in seinem Roman Maurice ein Denkmal.
Giles Lytton Strachey ( / ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi /; [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.
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.
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Lytton Strachey 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 biography, Strachey proposed to write lives with “a.
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Vor 3 Tagen · British biographer. The son of the distinguished soldier and Indian administrator Sir Richard Strachey, Lytton Strachey took after his mother in his artistic leanings. He was educated at Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire, and Leamington College, before going to Liverpool University (1897–99).
Learn about the life and work of Lytton Strachey, a historian, literary critic, and Bloomsbury wit who defined English literary modernism with his ironic and subversive style. Explore his biographies of Eminent Victorians, Queen Victoria, and Elizabeth and Essex, as well as his views on war, religion, and sexuality.
16. Jan. 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 Britons did...
