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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.
6. Aug. 2018 · Lytton Strachey’s explosive biographies demolished reputations – not even Florence Nightingale escaped his wrath. But what is his impact on life writing?
10. Apr. 2024 · 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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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.
Eminent Victorians, collection of short biographical sketches by Lytton Strachey, published in 1918. Strachey’s portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles “Chinese” Gordon revolutionized English biography.
20. März 2005 · The letters of Lytton Strachey vividly capture the gossipy, saucy lives of the Bloomsbury group, says David Jays.
