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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 Sir Richard Strachey, an engineer.
		Strachey's homosexuality was revealed in a biography (1967-8) by Michael Holroyd.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lytton_Strachey (380 words)

	Strachey, Lytton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		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.
		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).
	www.bartleby.com /65/st/StracheyL.html (178 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: Lytton Strachey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
	www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/LyttonStracheyeBooks.htm (524 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Eminent Victorians (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Strachey paints Manning as a weak, vacillating, impulsive man of great ambition whose conversion to Roman Catholicism was as much a political and career move as one of the heart and soul.
		Strachey also seems to have viewed her invalid status as something of a neurotic problem, which in the light of recent research (showing that she likely had undulant fever) may not be accurate.
		Strachey's is the portrait of an age, as much of the early twentieth century as the nineteenth that preceded it.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140183507?v=glance (2766 words)

	Knitting Circle Lytton Strachey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		One of the handsome young men that he was attracted to was his cousin Duncan Grant, but Lytton Strachey was disappointed when Duncan Grant later showed that he preferred John Maynard Keynes by going to live with him.
		Occasionally another member of the household was Lytton Strachey's sometime lover Roger Senhouse (1899-1970) who was a translator of Colette and a partner in the publishing business Secker and Warburg.
		A painting of Lytton Strachey, dated 1913, by Duncan Grant is reproduced in fl and white in Quentin Bell, (1976)
	myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/lyttonstrachey.html (812 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Strachey, Lytton
		Lytton Strachey accomplished a revolution in biographical writing in his succinct and satirical biographies of four Eminent Victorians (1918) which were written in pointed reaction to the Victorian, two-volumed hagiographical life-and-letters tradition.
		Strachey’s younger brother, James, and his wife Alix, were the leading English Freudians of their generation, translating the complete edition of the psychologist’s works.
		By the end of that book, although his reasons are different from those of her contemporaries, Strachey is unstinting in his praise of several of the monarch’s qualities, including two that he valued very highly: honesty and emotional frankness (both disarmingly revealed in the queen’s diaries).
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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.
		In 1917 Strachey and Carrington moved into a cottage in Tidemarsh, Oxfordshire, and continued to carry on with their personal lives.
	www.hrc.utexas.edu /research/fa/strachey.lytton.html (1216 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Strachey's Victorian sensibilities and Freudian view of his subjects often take him on wild flights of fancy that fail the test of Occam's razor.
		For instance, he asserts that Elizabeth was sexually disorganized based on a smattering of rumours which, he claims, prove that she had a deep-seated fear of sex and perhaps a hysterical block which prevented her from engaging in intercourse.
		Strachey's first chapter gives a particularly adept placement of the Queen's personality within the court of England and the field of late-16th century Europe.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156283107?v=glance (769 words)

	The Observer \| Review \| Confessions of a bohemian
		Strachey, who witters on about his health, laments in his last letter (to Senhouse) that it's 'particularly annoying because there doesn't seem to be anything serious the matter'.
		Strachey was a striking figure, inviting caricature: one friend called him 'old man Strachey with the billowy beard and alternating basso-falsetto voice'.
		Strachey is saved time and again by his keen sense of absurdity.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,1441621,00.html (1087 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: Eminent Victorians (Oxford World's Classics) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918.
		Lytton Strachey approached his subjects with scepticism rather than reverence, and his iconoclastic wit and engaging narratives thrilled as well as shocked his contemporaries.
		Strachey portrays Cardinal Manning as a cunning self-seeking man, using the Churches - the Church of England and later the Catholic Church - as a ladder for his own career.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0192801589 (901 words)

	Lytton Strachey, "Queen Victoria" (Chatto & Windus, 1921, and constantly reprinted as a Penguin Modern ...
		Lytton Strachey, "Queen Victoria" (Chatto and Windus, 1921, and constantly reprinted as a Penguin Modern Classic and in other edi
		About those attempts on her life, Strachey writes, "All, with a single exception, were perpetrated by adolescents, whose motives were apparently not murderous, since, save in the case of Maclean [the last], none of their pistols was loaded.
		But Lytton Strachey dedicates his biography of the Queen to Virginia Woolf, an honor it took her a while to acknowledge because she was deeply envious of her friend's achievement.
	www.facstaff.bucknell.edu /payne/19.htm (871 words)

	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.
	bloomsbury.denise-randle.co.uk /strachey.htm (205 words)

	Carrington
		Lytton Strachey was a homosexual, who first noticed Dora when he thought her a lovely young boy.
		Even before Strachey's fatal illness, her life verged on tragedy in a certain sense, because the soul-mate of her life happened to be a man with whom she could not share a sexual relationship.
		Strachey was a member of the famed Bloomsbury Group, the English equivalent of the Algonquin Roundtable, a group of wits and raconteurs who assembled frequently to exchange bon mots, intellectual pleasantries and literary gossip.
	www.fakes.net /carrington.htm (1045 words)

	The Bloomsbury Group -- Lytton Strachey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Though he was homosexual, the most lasting intimate relationship of his life was with the painter Dora Carrington, who deeply loved him and lived with him from 1917 until his death, first at Tidmarsh, Berkshire, then Ham Spray, where they were joined for a time by Carrington's husband, Ralph Partridge.
		Shortly after Lytton died of stomach cancer, Carrington committed suicide, unable to bear the thought of life without him.
		Lytton Strachey Collection at the University of Texas
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	Lytton Strachey - a biographical note
		Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was raised at Lancaster Gate, in central London.
		His mother took an interest in literature and politics, and Strachey met many of the leading writers and thinkers of the day when they came to visit Lady Strachey.
		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.
	www.mantex.co.uk /ou/a319/strachey.htm (841 words)

	John Maynard Keynes: Lavender & Bolshevik
		Keynes was characterized by his male sweetheart, Lytton Strachey, as “A liberal and a sodomite, an atheist and a statistician.” His particular depravity was the sexual abuse of little boys.
		The works of Keynes, Lytton Strachey, and Bertrand Russell have been, and are today, required reading in almost every college and university in the United States and Canada.
		Strachey was responsible for writing books that undermined the Christian ethic of the Nineteenth Century and set the tone for the pornographic and depraved literature of today.
	www.knology.net /~bilrum/keynes.htm (2237 words)

	Encyclopedia: Giles Lytton Strachey
		Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880 –; January 21, 1932) was a British writer, best known as a biographer.
		Strachey's unconventional private life was revealed in a biography (1967-8) by Michael Holroyd (see below).
		His relationship with the painter Dora Carrington was portrayed in the film Carrington (1995).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Giles-Lytton-Strachey (332 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Strachey, Lytton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		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.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/strachey_l.html (790 words)

	Eminent Victorians Summary & Essays - Lytton Strachey
		In Eminent Victorians (1918), Lytton Strachey examined the lives of four famous English individuals from the Victorian Era and found that they were not quite what previous biographies and popular legend had made them out to be.
		Strachey determined that these large and tedious volumes, full of what he called ‘‘ill-digested masses of material,’’ did a disservice to the art of biography.
		Florence Nightingale, although Strachey does not devalue her astonishing achievements, is presented as a woman maniacally obsessed with work, whose personality was acerbic rather than saintly.
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	Strachey, Lytton on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		(Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880-1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge.
		A polemic against greed and religion: Lytton Strachey's elegant, energetic character assassinations destroyed for ever the pretensions of the Victorian age to moral supremacy.
		Arts: Books -Ignorance - the goal of every good historian; Lytton Strachey revived the art of biography, but Mark Bostridge says it's time his ideas about people were updated; Eminent Victorians: The Definitive...
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/S/StracheyL1.asp (516 words)

	Woolf in the World: A Pen and a Press of Her Own: Case 5d
		Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf began their careers by writing reviews and literary essays for The Times Literary Supplement and The Spectator.
		Strachey was “all of a heap” because he had proposed marriage to Virginia Woolf before writing the letter shown on the left.
		Lytton’s younger brother James Strachey and Leonard Woolf edited the correspondence.
	www.smith.edu /libraries/libs/rarebook/exhibitions/penandpress/case5d.htm (294 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Strachey (Giles) Lytton
		Strachey, (Giles) Lytton (1880-1932), British biographer and literary critic, who helped sweep away the ponderous, solemn Victorian approach to the...
		Keynes entered King’s College, Cambridge, also on a scholarship, and took his degree in mathematics in 1905.
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	Lytton Strachey Collection at Bartleby.com
		Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Authors > Nonfiction > Lytton Strachey
		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.
		Innovating the application of psychological principles to history, Strachey presents four artful biographies, or Victorian visions.”
	www.bartleby.com /people/StracheyL.html (136 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Queen Victoria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Strachey's study of her youth, with its Whiggish sympathies and the unseen influences of Baroness Lehzen, King Leopold and Baron Stockmart, of her total surrender to Prince Albert, of her relations with Melbourne, Peel, Palmerston and Disraeli, may cast an image almost as legendary as the pious icon that it replaced.
		To the modern ear some of Strachey's language may at times be a bit dry.
		strachey became famous for his 'eminent victorians' which has the reputation for being a hatchet job-but he was looking at the previous generation from the disillusioned, post-WWI perspective, and he treats florence nightingale et al more like prodigies than monsters.
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	AllRefer.com - Lytton Strachey (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		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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	The Haworth Press Online Catalog: Product: 'Lytton Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity'
		This study of Lytton Strachey, one of the neglected voices of early twentieth-century England, uses his life and work to re-evaluate early British modernism and the relationship between Strachey’s sexual rebellion and literature.
		Questioning the idea that homosexuality is a “transgressive rebellion,” as Strachey as well as scholars on Bloomsbury have insisted, this volume focuses on the ongoing conflict between Strachey’s Victorian notions of class, gender, and race, and his desire to be modern.
		The story reminds us of what Strachey was up against, of how he struggled with his odd high voice, and of the unremitting hostility of the English middle-class majority.
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