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Strachey was born on 1 March 1880 at Stowey House, Clapham Common, London, the fifth son and 11th child of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey, an officer in the British colonial armed forces, and his second wife, the former Jane Grant, who became a leading supporter of the women's suffrage movement.
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.
10. Apr. 2024 · Lytton Strachey (born March 1, 1880, London—died Jan. 21, 1932, Ham Spray House, near Hungerford, Berkshire, Eng.) 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 ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
18. Mai 2018 · Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era. Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880. He was the eleventh of thirteen children of an upper-middle-class family.
Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography is a 1967–68 two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, often seen as the author's magnum opus. He published a revised version in 1994 with a revised subtitle, The New Biography.
- Michael Holroyd
- 1967
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.
Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a historian, literary critic, and Bloomsbury wit whose ironic prose style and sense of rupture with the Victorian past helped to define English literary modernism.
