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  1. Vor 4 Tagen · As biographer Lytton Strachey put it, "After the reigns of George III, George IV, and William IV, the people of England had relapsed into their ancient horror of matrimony…With Victoria, they could feel quite at ease. She, evidently, was not going to give them any trouble of that sort."

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    Vor 5 Tagen · With Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, Lytton Strachey threw out all the conventions of the respectful, cradle-to-grave Victorian biography.What was needed instead, he argued, was a ‘becoming brevity – a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant – that, surely, is the first duty of the biographer.’

  3. Vor 2 Tagen · Weitere namhafte Personen, die der Gruppe zugerechnet werden, sind der Kunstkritiker Clive Bell, die Malerin Vanessa Bell (Virginia Woolfs Schwester), der Maler Roger Fry, der Maler Duncan Grant, der Ökonom John Maynard Keynes, der Autor Lytton Strachey, der Verleger Leonard Woolf (Virginia Woolfs Ehemann), – und ab den 1910er Jahren auch E.M. Forster.

  4. 17. Mai 2024 · A half century earlier that title could have been used and understood in all sincerity. When Lytton Strachey used it, no one could mistake its ironic intent. Strachey made no secret of his purpose or his method. ‘ Ordinary history’, he explained in his preface ‘proceeded by the direct method of scrupulous narration’. The historian of ...

  5. Vor 2 Tagen · McKenzie’s eclectic references, ranging from the Counting Crows, Ghostbusters, Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians, and T.S. Eliot, reflect a creative and thoughtful approach to presenting material. Combined with the rich detail and McKenzie’s straightforward prose, the book manages the difficult task of being both in-depth and approachable.

  6. Vor 6 Tagen · Wit is almost always ultimately self-deprecating—Oscar Wilde, Lytton Strachey, and Noël Coward were very serious men who went out of their way to emphasize the shallow and trivial aspects of their artistic personalities—but the modern political partisan cannot afford such self-deprecation, because he understands the entire political contest to be a matter of raising or lower the relative ...

  7. 22. Mai 2024 · Yes, Carrington is available to watch via streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The film follows the lives of two individuals, an artist Dora Carrington and a writer Lytton Strachey. The two cross...