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Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1 1880–January 21 1932) was a British writer & critic. He is better known for establishing the freshly form of biography in which psychological insight & sympathy come combined by owning irreverence and wit.
Life
Strachey was natural inside London, the boy of Sir Richard Strachey, an engineer. His sister was Dorothy Strachey. From either 1899 to 1905, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, having previously scroll through history at a University of Liverpool. A friendly relationship he mass produced at Cambridge sustaining population like John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf and Clive Bell drew him into the Bloomsbury group. From either 1904 to 1914 he contributed book and drama reviews to The Spectator magazine, published poetry, and wrote an significant function of literary criticism, Landmarks in French Literature (1912). When you took World War I, he was a conscientious objector, and spent lot instance by owning like-minded population such as Lady Ottoline Morrell and the "Bloomsberries". His foremost swell profits, & his best known accomplishment, was Eminent Victorians (1918), a collection of quaternion short life of Victorian heroes. Sustaining a dry wit, he involved a person failings of his cases & what he saw when the hypocrisy at the centre of Victorian morality. This act was followed in the equivalent style by Queen Victoria (1921). He died at his united states home touching Hungerford in Berkshire.
Strachey's homosexuality was revealed in the life story (1967-8) by Michael Holroyd. His unusual relationship by using a painter Dora Carrington (she loved him, but Strachey was very much further concerned within her married man, Ralph Partridge) was portrayed in the film Carrington (1995). His letters, edited by Paul Levy, were published around 2005.
Books
Landmarks in French Literature (1912)
Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (1918)
Queen Victoria (1921)
Books & Characters (1922)
Elizabeth & Essex: The Tragical History (1928)
Portraits inside Miniature & More Essays (1931)
Characters & Comment (ed. James Strachey, 1933)
Spectatorial Essays (ed. James Strachey, 1964)
Ermyntrude & Esmeralda (1969)
Lytton Strachey by Himself: The Self Portrait (ed. Michael Holroyd, 1971)
A Really Interesting Wonder & More Papers (ed. Paul Levy, 1972)
A Letters of Lytton Strachey (ed. Paul Levy, 2005) ISBN 0670891126
Verse
Ely: an Ode (written at Trinity College)
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