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24 de dez. de 2022 · Lytton Strachey by Dora Carrington, 1916, National Portrait Gallery, London, via Art UK. Repulsed by the advances of a man thirteen years older than her, she planned to exact revenge on Strachey by sneaking into his room early the next morning and cutting off his long red beard.
Giles Lytton Strachey was an early 20th century writer and biographer who developed a reputation for writing biographies that dealt with individuals as people, rather than the events they were associated with. His 1921 biography of the British monarch, Queen Victoria, is a highly readable insight into this long-reigning queen.
1 de jan. de 2005 · Lytton Strachey is best remembered as a biographer from his famous Eminent Victorians to his lives of Victoria and Elizabeth I. His letters, however, depict better the breadth of the man's life whether it be philosophical interchanges with G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell, friendly confidences shared with fellow members of the Bloomsbury set, or love letters launched to various partners ...
The son of the distinguished soldier and Indian administrator Sir Richard Strachey, Lytton Strachey took after his mother in his artistic leanings. He was educated at Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire, and Leamington College, before going to Liverpool University (1897–99).
2 de dez. de 2020 · Note 1 in page 295 Arthur Waugh, “Mr. Lytton Strachey,” a letter to the Spectator, CXLVIII (30 Jan-1932), 146. John Russell's comment on Strachey in the following passage is excellent: “Other writers have used portraits to give pause to their narratives; but with Strachey the narrative is all portrait, and if we look into the eyes of his Voltaire or, more surprisingly, of his Prince ...
de Lytton Strachey. Lytton Strachey. " Victoriens éminents " rassemble les biographies de quatre grandes figures typiques de l'époque victorienne. Le premier portrait est consacré à Henry Edward Manning (1807-1892), qui fit le pas décisif d'abandonner l'anglicanisme pour le catholicisme et fut nommé cardinal de l'Église romaine.
25 de ago. de 2017 · Lytton Strachey: The New Biography is an important biography by Michael Holroyd, portraying the extraordinary life of Lytton Strachey, who is also a biographer, in detail. Based on reading the text of Lytton Strachey: The New Biography, this paper analyzes Lytton Strachey’s most distinct character - rebel combined with the social background and the theory of “the New Biography” in three ...
