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Jane Grant. 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.
First published in 1921, Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria follows the inventive biographical style Strachey created, featuring witty, irreverent prose paired with the focus on human characteristics rather than just their achievements. Told in relation to the prominent figures in each stage of her life, Queen Victoria is an intimate perspective ...
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Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and widow.
Lytton Strachey has not been always fair with the facts, but he has created his impressions in such a clear-cut and fascinating manner that he sweeps the reader into the life of Victoria, revealed ...
10 de abr. de 2024 · 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 biography, Strachey proposed to write lives with “a ...
5 de mar. de 2023 · Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey. Publication date 1922 Collection internetarchivebooks Contributor Internet Archive Language English. Addeddate 2023-03 ...
