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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.’
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.
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."
Vor 2 Tagen · These painters, intellectuals, avant-garde thinkers and rule breakers (Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, Lytton Strachey, E.M. Forster, etc) were as famous for ...
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.
Vor 3 Tagen · Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death...
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Vor 2 Tagen · A guided tour of their house reveals every corner of the lives they supposedly once lived there, and shared intimately with their Bloomsbury Brethren - Virginia and Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, and as I learned on the tour, John Maynard Keynes, apparently looking out a second floor window to the pond when he ...
