Lytton Strachey
English writer (1880-1932) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 51
Giles Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.
Lytton Strachey is read about 370 times a day, in 31 languages.
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Sons and daughters of Sir Richard Strachey and Lady Strachey. Left to right: Marjorie, Dorothy, Lytton, Joan Pernel, Oliver, Dick, Ralph, Philippa, Elinor, James
A painting by Dora Carrington of the "Mill House", Tidmarsh, Pangbourne, on the upper Thames, where much of Queen Victoria was written
Strachey photographed by Lady Ottoline Morrell in 1911 or 1912
Dora Carrington, Ralph Partridge, Lytton and Oliver Strachey, and Frances Partridge; snapshot by Ottoline Morrell, 1923
Dora Carrington; Stephen Tomlin; Walter John Herbert ('Sebastian') Sprott; Lytton Strachey, June 1926
Dora Carrington and Lytton Strachey at Ham Spray
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His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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United Kingdom
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Writers
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Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1880 to 1932 · aged 51
