Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1, 1880–January 21, 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (61st in leap years). ... 1880 was a leap year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... January 21 is the 21st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... This is an article on biographies. ... Psychology (Classical Greek: psyche = soul or mind, logos = study of) is an academic and applied field involving the study of behavior, mind and thought and the neurological bases of behavior. ...

Life

Strachey was born in London, the son of Sir Richard Strachey, an engineer. His sister was Dorothy Strachey. From 1899 to 1905, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, having previously read history at the University of Liverpool. The friendships he made at Cambridge with people such as John Maynard Keynes, Leonard Woolf and Clive Bell drew him into the Bloomsbury group. From 1904 to 1914 he contributed book and drama reviews to The Spectator magazine, published poetry, and wrote an important work of literary criticism, Landmarks in French Literature (1912). During World War I, he was a conscientious objector, and spent much time with like-minded people such as Lady Ottoline Morrell and the "Bloomsberries". His first great success, and his most famous achievement, was Eminent Victorians (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the hypocrisy at the centre of Victorian morality. This work was followed in the same style by Queen Victoria (1921). He died at his country house near Hungerford in Berkshire. The clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, which contains Big Ben London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... Sir Richard Strachey (1817-1908), British soldier and Indian administrator, third son of Edward Strachey, was born on 24 July 1817, at Sutton Court, Somersetshire. ... Dorothy Bussy (nee Strachey) (1865 or 1866–1960), English novelist and translator. ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1905 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Full name The College of the Holy and Undivided Trinity Motto Virtus vera nobilitas Virtue is true Nobility Named after The Holy Trinity Previous names Kings Hall and Michaelhouse (until merged in 1546) Established 1546 Sister College Christ Church Master Martin Rees, Baron Rees of Ludlow Location Trinity Street... 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A conscientious objector is an individual whose personal beliefs are incompatible with military service, perhaps with any role in the armed forces or just with a particular war. ... Lady Ottoline Morrell ( June 16, 1873 - April 21, 1938) was an English socialite, friend and patron of many artistic people, including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon and D. H. Lawrence. ... Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... Look up Hypocrisy on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Hypocrisy is the act of pretending to have morals or virtues that one does not truly possess or practice. ... 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Strachey's homosexuality was revealed in a biography (1967-8) by Michael Holroyd. His unusual relationship with the painter Dora Carrington (she loved him, but Strachey was much more interested in her husband, Ralph Partridge) was portrayed in the film Carrington (1995). His letters, edited by Paul Levy, were published in 2005. Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Michael Holroyd (born August 27, 1935) is a biographer, born in London and educated at Eton College. ... Dora de Houghton Carrington (March 29, 1893 – March 11, 1932) was a British painter and decorative artist. ... 1995 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Books

• Landmarks in French Literature (1912)
• Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (1918)
• Queen Victoria (1921)
• Books and Characters (1922)
• Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (1928)
• Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (1931)
• Characters and Commentaries (ed. James Strachey, 1933)
• Spectatorial Essays (ed. James Strachey, 1964)
• Ermyntrude and Esmeralda (1969)
• Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self Portrait (ed. Michael Holroyd, 1971)
• The Really Interesting Question and Other Papers (ed. Paul Levy, 1972)
• The Letters of Lytton Strachey (ed. Paul Levy, 2005) ISBN 0670891126

1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. ... 1918 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. ... 1921 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1928 was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1969 was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... 2005 (Roman: MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Verse

• Ely: an Ode (written at Trinity College)

References

"Lytton Strachey", Michael Holroyd 1994, ISBN 0099332914 (paperback) 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ...

'Lytton Strachey: The Art of Biography', Desmond MacCarthy. "Sunday Times" Nov. 5, 1933: 8.

"Lytton Strachey: his mind and art," Charles Richard Sanders. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1957.

"The Psychological Milieu of Lytton Strachey",Martin Kallich. NY: Bookman Associates, 1961.

'Nabokov and Strachey.'G.Diment. "Comparative Literature Studies" 27.4 (1990): 285-97.

"Lytton Strachey", John Ferns. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1988.

'Holroyd/Strachey/Shaw: Art and Archives in Literary Biography,' Harold Fromm. "The Hudson Review", 42.2 (1989): 201-221.

'Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians', Millicent Bell. "The Biographer’s Art", ed. Jeffrey Meyers. London: Macmillan Press, 1989, 53-55.

'Lytton Strachey’s Elegant, Energetic Character Assassinations Destroyed for Ever the Pretensions of the Victorian Age to Moral Supremacy,'Roy Hattersley. "New Statesman" Aug. 12, 2002.

External links

• Project Gutenberg e-texts of some of Lytton Strachey's works