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  Lytton Strachey
Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880 - January 21, 1932) was a British writer, best known as a biographer.
Strachey was born in London, the son of Sir Richard Strachey, an engineer.
Strachey's unconventional private life was revealed in a biography (1967-8) by Michael Holroyd (see below).
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 Giles Lytton Strachey Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era.
Strachey was fairly tall and excessively thin, with a disguising rust beard and a shrill voice.
Strachey was one of the literary influences that partly destroyed the ghost of the Victorian era in the 1920s.
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Strachey's homosexual ity was revealed in a biography (1967 -8) by Michael Holroyd.
His unusual relationship with the painter Dora Carrington (she loved him, but Strachey was much more interested in her husband, Ralph Partridge) was portrayed in the film ''Carrington'' (1995).
Strachey's letters, edited by Paul Levy, were published in 2005.
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 Lytton Strachey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880 – January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic.
Strachey was born in London, the son of Lady (Jane) Strachey, a leading supporter of the women's suffrage movement, and Sir Richard Strachey, an engineer.
Though Strachey spoke openly about his homosexuality with his Bloomsbury friends, it was not publicly revealed until (1967-8), in a biography by Michael Holroyd.
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 Lytton Strachey Collection
Giles Lytton Strachey was born in 1880, the eleventh of thirteen children, to General Sir Richard Strachey and his wife Jane Grant.
Strachey's secondary education was completed at University College in Liverpool where he studied Latin, Greek, mathematics, and English literature and history.
Woolf, Leonard, 1880-1969--4.4-7 (160 from Strachey), 5.8 (65)
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 Strachey, Lytton - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
STRACHEY, LYTTON [Strachey, Lytton] (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge.
As a critic, Strachey was the author of such works as Landmarks in French Literature, a study of the classical spirit (1912), and Books and Characters (1922).
Lytton Strachey is best known for his wicked biographies, but his letters are a gossipy celebration of life.
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 Lytton Strachey Collection at Bartleby.com
(Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge.
Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography.
In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the lengthy panegyrics of the 19th cent., he determined to write biographies that were swift, selective, critical, witty, and artistic.—Continue at Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
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 Fictionwise eBooks: Lytton Strachey
Bio: Giles Lytton Strachey, whose iconoclastic reexaminations of historical figures changed forever the course of modern biographical writing, was born in London on March 1, 1880, the eleventh child of a distinguished upper-class family.
Strachey's upbringing was supervised primarily by his mother, a strong-willed young Scotswoman well versed in English and French literature.
It became the touchstone of modern biography, and established Lytton Strachey as a master prose stylist.
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Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1 1880–January 21 1932) was a British writer & critic.
Strachey was natural inside London, the boy of Sir Richard Strachey, an engineer.
Strachey's homosexuality was revealed in the life story (1967-8) by Michael Holroyd.
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 glbtq >> literature >> Strachey, Lytton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The English biographer and essayist Lytton Strachey spoke openly of his homosexuality to his Bloomsbury friends, but his openly gay works were published only after his death.
Giles Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880, one of thirteen children of Richard Strachey and Jane Maria Grant.
In his diary, Strachey writes about the loneliness of the Liverpool years, the desire for love, and of the unhappiness with his looks--thinking his face too oddly shaped.
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 LAGNA - Letters of Lytton Strachey
"Strachey in his forties was still sending suggestive messages to Dorelia John about her pre-pubescent stepsons, and reporting enterprising attempts by a friend holidaying in Morocco to negotiate the purchase of a five-year-old boy."
Occasionally another member of the household was Lytton Strachey's sometime lover Roger Senhouse, then in his 20s.
Michael Holroyd (1967-68), "Lytton Strachey", 2 volumes, New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Strachey,
Strachey, Lytton STRACHEY, LYTTON [Strachey, Lytton] (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge.
Strachey, William STRACHEY, WILLIAM [Strachey, William] 1572-1621, English colonial historian; educated at Cambridge.
Bloomsbury group BLOOMSBURY GROUP [Bloomsbury group] name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II.
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 eReader.com: Author: Lytton Strachey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Giles Lytton Strachey, whose iconoclastic reexaminations of historical figures changed forever the course of modern biographical writing, was born in London on March 1, 1880, the eleventh child of a distinguished upper-class family.
Strachey's next work, Eminent Victorians (1918), caused a succès de scandale, establishing him as a leader of the reaction against the Victorians that followed World War I. Strachey scored a triumphant success with his next biography, Queen Victoria (1921).
Lytton Strachey died at Ham Spray House, his home in Berkshire, on January 21, 1932.
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 Strachey (Giles) Lytton - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880-1932), British biographer and literary critic, who helped sweep away the ponderous, solemn Victorian approach to the...
Strachey, Lytton, Letter to Dora Carrington (quotations): Appearance: Then Edith Sitwell appeared, her…
Then Edith Sitwell appeared, her nose longer than an ant-eater's, and read some of her absurd stuff.
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 Anecdote - [Giles] Lytton Strachey - Brotherly Love?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Strachey, that you have a conscientious objection to all wars," he began.
Strachey," the interrogator continued, "what would you do if you saw a German soldier attempting to rape your sister?" "I suppose," Strachey drily replied, gazing at his sisters in the public gallery, "I would try and come between them."
Strachey, [Giles] Lytton (1880-1932) British writer [noted for his acerbic wit; for his leading role in the Bloomsbury group of British intellectuals; and for such works as Queen Victoria and Eminent Victorians (1918)]
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 DVD Verdict Review - Carrington
Strachey is a homosexual, a cynic, and passive (he goes out of his way to announce his contientious objection to the impending war).
Strachey always has a quip ready, but we sense that behind the light in his eyes is a sense of desparation: a man who does not want to be alone in a world that shuns both his desires and his critical eye.
Indeed, Pryce's performance as Strachey does steal plenty of scenes away from Thompson, but this does not diminish her skills here: Strachey is simply a more colorful character.
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 Lytton Strachey - a biographical note
Lytton (Giles) Strachey (1880-1932) was born at Clapham Common and raised at Lancaster Gate, in central London.
Paul Levy's collection of Strachey's Letters reveals the poignant love-affair between him and the painter Dora Carrington, plus his affairs with Roger Senhouse and his cousin Duncan Grant.
In 1917 Strachey and Carrington moved into a cottage in Tidmarsh, Oxfordshire, and continued to carry on with their personal lives.
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 (Giles) Lytton Strachey Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Lytton Strachey, critic and biographer, created a new kind of biography.
Though Strachey never wrote a full-length biography of a literary figure, his biographies represent a major influence on the writing of biography in general and literary biography in particular.
Because Strachey's methods and approach, especially in Eminent Victorians, often rely on psychological insights that are finally unverifiable, few modern biographers adopt his method completely.
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 Lytton Strachey
Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1 1880 - January 21 1932), a British writer, was born in London the eleventh of thirteen children and from 1899 to 1905 studied at Trinity College, Cambridge.
In 1915 Strachey met Dora Carrington, a graduate of the Slade School of Art and the woman who would shortly devote herself to him for the rest of his life.
He lived with the painter Dora Carrington, who loved him, and her husband Ralph Partridge, whom he loved.
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 AllRefer.com - Lytton Strachey (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Lytton Strachey (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Lytton Strachey, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge.
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 Lytton Strachey - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
Lytton Strachey - Penguin Classics Authors - Penguin Classics
Giles Lytton Strachey, the son of General Sir Richard Strachey, F.R.S., was born in 1880.
He showed a gift for writing from his earliest youth.
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 STRACHEY, (Giles) Lytton autographs, letters, documents, manuscripts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Social gatherings at one of his houses would see artists, writers, airmen and politicians rubbing shoulders.
Strachey attended one such party at Sassoon's London house where he met Churchill.
See Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey, volume II, (1968), pages 468-469.
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 Lytton Strachey
[1] Michael Holroyd, Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography.
Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self Portrait (
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 GILES LYTTON STRACHEY :: AudioEnglish.net dictionary
Familiarity information: GILES LYTTON STRACHEY used as a noun is very rare.
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Bloomsbury Group (an inner circle of writers and artists and philosophers who lived in or around Bloomsbury early in the 20th century and were noted for their unconventional lifestyles)
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