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Há 1 dia · Queen Victoria‘s coronation in 1838 marked the start of one of history‘s most remarkable royal turnarounds. With the crown‘s reputation and relevance at a low point, the young queen seized her chance to prove the monarchy‘s value to a changing Britain. Through her unifying presence, capable leadership, and the moral example of her reign ...
Há 2 dias · With Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, Lytton Strachey threw out all the conventions of the respectful, cradle-to-grave Victorian biography.What was needed instead, he argued, was a ‘becoming brevity – a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant – that, surely, is the first duty of the biographer.’
Há 3 dias · Una cosa me llama la atención del esnobismo de Lytton Strachey. Fue un gran lector, y no tenía demasiada paciencia con la gente que no lee. Y menos si eran de clase alta o media. Me reencontré con mi propio esnobismo, o elitismo: yo tampoco tengo demasiada estima por la gente que no lee. Esperen un momento mientras me analizo. No creo ser un ...
Há 22 horas · Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death...
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Há 5 dias · Yes, Carrington is available to watch via streaming on Amazon Prime Video. The film follows the lives of two individuals, an artist Dora Carrington and a writer Lytton Strachey. The two cross...
Há 3 dias · Wit is almost always ultimately self-deprecating—Oscar Wilde, Lytton Strachey, and Noël Coward were very serious men who went out of their way to emphasize the shallow and trivial aspects of their artistic personalities—but the modern political partisan cannot afford such self-deprecation, because he understands the entire political contest to be a matter of raising or lower the relative ...
Há 22 horas · In the early 1900s he married Dorothy Strachey, sister of historian Lytton Strachey, whom he met through contact with the Bloomsbury group in London. Toucan , pastel by Simon Bussy is among the works at Browse & Darby’s summer exhibition.
