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Há 1 dia · Este círculo de intelectuales, que incluía a figuras como John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster y Lytton Strachey, promovió un ambiente de libertad intelectual y experimentación artística que influyó profundamente en su trabajo. Las discusiones y debates que surgían en estas reuniones alimentaron su pensamiento crítico y su visión literaria.
Há 4 dias · Alongside luminaries such as Lytton Strachey, cricketer and biographer of Queen Victoria, Sir Bernard Spilsbury, Sir Frank Whittle, Dennis Enright, poet and academic, Keith Savage, England Rugby Union player, Jim Shekdar, rower extraordinaire, Norman Painting, actor and countryman, and the many alumni who represented their country in two World Wars and other conflicts, we have recently ...
Há 3 dias · Emma Thompson as Dora and Jonathan Pryce as Lytton Strachey in Carrington. (Image: Le Studio Canal) Truth As Strange As Fiction . The festival’s 'Life Stories' theme resonates with the new memoir writing category for the Bridport Prize', the literary competition started at Bridport Arts Centre in 1973, and has generated some exceptional documentary features, plus dramas based on historical ...
Há 3 dias · Lytton Strachey's Queen Victoria (1921) was more critical, but it was discredited in part by mid-20th-century biographers such as Hector Bolitho and Roger Fulford, who, unlike Strachey, had access to Victoria's journal and letters.
Há 3 dias · The little village of Alfriston lies along the South Downs Way, near the Seven Sisters, making it a mecca for hikers, but it also sits at the fulcrum of the Bloomsbury Group, that collective of ferocious intellect that gathered in the early 20th century and comprised names as significant as Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and EM Forster.
Há 4 dias · In it Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values.
Há 1 dia · As the world moves closer to WWIII for reasons no sane man can understand, I prefer for the moment to write about travel. I am still reading Vigée Le Brun’s memories about her travels in Italy, and finding them pretty interesting.
