Search results
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.
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 Victorian ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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.
May 18, 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.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 6, 2018 · We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us.
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.
