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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. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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culture · English writer and critic (1880–1932) · poet · painter · writer · literary critic · biographer · theatre critic · also Lytton Strachey, Giles Lytton Strachey, Strachey
Born 1 March 1880 · Died 21 January 1932 · Q540427
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The Art Newspaper: Lytton Strachey foxes Julianne Moore in Pedro Almodóvar film
The Atlantic: Lytton Strachey: The Success of Excess
The Harvard Crimson: LYTTON STRACHEY
The Australian Financial Review: Lytton Strachey – first of the great literary biographers
The Washington Post: Lytton Strachey is best known for his wicked biographies, but his letters are a gossipy celebration of life.
Died 1932-01-21.
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“If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.”
Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1921).
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Carrington agreed to marry Partridge, not for love but to secure a three-way relationship
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Lytton Strachey was back in London, living with his mother at 6 Belsize Park Gardens, Hampstead, where she had now moved
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Spent some weeks at a health spa in Saltsjöbaden, near Stockholm in Sweden
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Studied at Trinity College (1905).
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His mother assigned him a bed-sitting room at 69 Lancaster Gate
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And was given a BA degree after he had won a second class in the History Tripos in June 1903
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Strachey took the Christ Church scholarship examination, wanting to get into Balliol College, Oxford, but the examiners determined that Strachey's academic achievements were not remarkable and were struck by his "shyness
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Lady Strachey decided that he was ready to leave school and go to university, but because she thought he was too young for Oxford she decided that he should first attend a smaller institution, the University of Liverpool
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That her son should start his more serious education and sent him to Abbotsholme School in Rocester, Derbyshire, where pupils were required to do manual work every day
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Born 1880-03-01.
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