Lytton Strachey By Himself

Lytton Strachey By Himself
Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1784974196

While working on his two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd had access to the Strachey archives. From the same source he collected all Strachey's diaries and memoirs, which together in this volume form an intermittent but not disconnected autobiography. From childhood diaries to the introspective and often anguished records of late adolescence emerges an intimate self-portrait, valuable for its own sake and also for the light it sheds on the most gifted members of the Bloomsbury Group. In addition to the informal diaries, Strachey wrote and read to the Memoir Club two autobiographical essays (also published here) which may be judged among the finest and most characteristic of his writing.

The Letters of Lytton Strachey

The Letters of Lytton Strachey
Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Penguin AudioBooks
Total Pages: 698
Release: 2006
Genre: Authors, English
ISBN: 9780141014739

Lytton Strachey (1880 - 1932) is one of the key figures in the cultural life of twentieth century Britain, and his letters are a literary treasure - trove of the man and his world, as well as a record of the startling and poignant love - affair, between him and the painter Dora Carrington. The breadth of his correspondence is breathtaking, going from precocious childhood letters, to letters to Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Maynard Keynes and other members of the Bloomsbury Group to love letters to Duncan Grant and Carrington. The thousands of letters he wrote retain their vitality to this day discussing changes in morals, the writing of history, literature and philosophy, politics, war and peace and the advent of modernism. As an historian and biographer, he was largely responsible for our own view that the Victorians were priggish; he was openly homosexual living in a menage a trois with Ralph Partridge and Carrington.

Carrington's Letters

Carrington's Letters
Author: Dora Carrington
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 643
Release: 2017-11-23
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1448137314

Carrington's beguiling letters take us beyond the Bloomsbury group to discuss sexual mores, how to be an artist, and what it is to be truly oneself. Known only by her surname, Dora Carrington was the star of her year at the Slade School of Fine Art, and was friends with some of the greatest minds of her day, including Virginia Woolf, Rosamund Lehmann and Maynard Keynes. For over a decade she was the companion of homosexual writer Lytton Strachey, and - stricken without him- killed herself when he died in 1932. Though she never achieved the fame her early career promised, in her determination to live life according to her own nature – especially in relation to her work and her fluid attitude to sex, gender and sexuality – she fought battles that remain familiar and urgent today. Now, through her passionate, playful and honest letters, we can encounter the maverick artist and compelling personality afresh and in her own words.

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria
Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: New York Harcourt, Brace [1921]
Total Pages: 478
Release: 1921
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Lytton Strachey's acclaimed portrayal of Queen Victoria revolutionised the art of biography by using elements of romantic fiction and melodrama to create a warm, humorous and very human portrait of this iconic figure. We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and widow. Equally fascinating are the depictions of her relationships: with her governess "precious Lehzen", with Peel, Gladstone and Disraeli, with her beloved Albert and, in later life, her legendary devotion to her Highland servant John Brown.

Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians
Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2023-11-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9359324418

"Eminent Victorians" is a seminal work of biography and social commentary published by British writer and critic Lytton Strachey. By offering four unique portrayals of notable Victorian people, the book challenges the standard approach to biography. Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Thomas Arnold, and General Charles Gordon are among Strachey's subjects. Strachey takes a sarcastic and critical perspective to their lives, rather than offering hagiographic narratives. He examines their shortcomings, paradoxes, and character complexity, presenting the human side of these great figures. Strachey's style is funny and astute, providing readers with a new perspective on these great figures. When it was initially released, the book's satirical tone and unorthodox biographical format generated quite a stir. Strachey's presentation of these illustrious Victorians as flawed and deficient questioned the conventional veneration for the era's heroes and heroines. "Eminent Victorians" is more than just a biography compilation; it's a critique of the Victorian society and beliefs that these figures embodied. Strachey's work was influential in altering the biography genre and encouraging a more nuanced and critical assessment of historical characters.

Friends and Apostles

Friends and Apostles
Author: Rupert Brooke
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300070040

Letters between the two men reveal their thoughts on politics, literature, and homosexuality, as well as their observations of such collegues and friends as John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Betrand Russell.

Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell

Selected Letters of Vanessa Bell
Author: Vanessa Bell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998
Genre: Bloomsbury group
ISBN: 9781559212618

This collection contains over 300 letters of painter & decorative designer Vanessa Bell, the central figure in the Bloomsbury group.

Biographical Essays

Biographical Essays
Author: Lytton Strachey
Publisher: Mariner Books
Total Pages: 314
Release: 1949
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

"Contains thirty-five sketches about Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, Sarah Bernhardt, and a number of delightful eccentrics, including Lady Hester Stanhope."--Back cover