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16 hours ago · A portrait of Woolf by Roger Fry c. 1917 Lytton Strachey and Woolf at Garsington, 1923 Virginia Woolf 1927 Woolf is considered to be one of the most important 20th-century novelists. [161] A modernist , she was one of the pioneers of using stream of consciousness as a narrative device , alongside contemporaries such as Marcel Proust , [162] [163] Dorothy Richardson and James Joyce .
2 days ago · The Bloomsbury group, named after the area of London, best known members were Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey. The house is a grade II* listed 18th century farmhouse. The interior contains an important series of mural and furniture decorations painted between 1916-1939 by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell.
5 days ago · The exhibition only hints at how Morrell’s boundless generosity was repaid with malicious gossip (Lytton Strachey among the worst offenders) or unflattering literary portraits. After a visit in June 1923, Woolf derided Morrell’s kindness in hosting a ‘shabby embroideress’ as a typically Ottoline ‘horror’ (she was in fact referring to Stoll, maker of the luminous embroidery ...
2 days ago · Macdonald also had the dubious distinction of being a prominent member of the 1917 Club, founded for Socialists by by Leonard Woolf (Virginia’s husband) and Oliver Strachey (Lytton’s brother). It was considered “no place to be a judge of wine” with “only two members capable of telling a vintage claret from a bottle of fortified Algerian must.
3 days ago · In this fact-based film, painter Dora Carrington (Emma Thompson) develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey (Jonathan Pryce). Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones.
4 days ago · From there emerged the so-called “Bloomsbury circle”, where The most important English intellectuals and artists of the first third of the 20th century met theresuch as John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946), Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), EM Forster (1879-1970), Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), Bertrand Russell (1872-1970), among others belonging to the exclusive society of the “Cambridge ...
2 days ago · In his book Eminent Victorians, Lytton Strachey portrays Gordon in the following manner: Gordon possessed an inherently reclusive nature; he had an aversion to social gatherings and formal attire, particularly in the presence of women, especially those of high society.
