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  1. Vor einem Tag · Lytton Strachey, a literary scalpel in hand, dissected Victorian heroes in his groundbreaking “Eminent Victorians,” forever altering the landscape of biography. Meanwhile, John Maynard Keynes, the economic revolutionary, challenged established theories with his groundbreaking ideas that continue to influence governments on a global scale.

  2. 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."

  3. akennedysmith.substack.com › p › the-best-of-brief-livesThe best short biographies

    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.’

  4. Vor 5 Tagen · While other members of the Bloomsbury group became stars in their fields—John Maynard Keynes in economics, Lytton Strachey in biography, Duncan Grant in art, and Woolf in literature—Bell is known more as a member of the group, according to Rachel Sloan, curator of the Courtauld exhibition, than as a major artist in her own right.

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Vor einem Tag · 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.