Lytton Strachey
| Noun | 1. |  Lytton Strachey - English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932) |
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Lytton StracheyStrachey, Lytton(Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury groupBloomsbury group,name given to the literary group that made the Bloomsbury area of London the center of its activities from 1904 to World War II. It included Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, E. M. ..... Click the link for more information. . Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the lengthy panegyrics of the 19th cent., he determined to write biographies that were swift, selective, critical, witty, and artistic. His work includes Eminent Victorians (1918), a volume of short biographical studies; Queen Victoria (1921), his masterpiece; Elizabeth and Essex (1928); and Portraits in Miniature (1931). As a critic, Strachey was the author of such works as Landmarks in French Literature, a study of the classical spirit (1912), and Books and Characters (1922). BibliographySee biography by M. Holroyd (2 vol., 1968; rev. ed. 1995). Lytton Strachey
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