Biographical Essays

New York: HBW, c. 1985.

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Lytton Strachey
birth name: Lytton Strachey
born: 3/1/1880
died: 1/21/1932

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Biography

English biographer and critic who opened a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past and especially to the monumental life-and-letters volumes of Victorian biography, Strachey proposed to write lives with "a brevity which excludes everything that is redundant and nothing that is significant." He is best known for Eminent Victorians (1918)-short sketches of the Victorian idols Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles "Chinese" Gordon. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore