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Chapters: Lytton Strachey, Christopher Strachey, John Strachey, Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet, Richard Strachey, Edward Strachey, 1st Baron Strachie, Charles Strachey, 4th Baron O'hagan, Dorothy Bussy, James Strachey, Strachey Baronets, Alix Strachey. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 65. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Giles Lytton Strachey (pronounced ; 1 March 1880 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Strachey was born on 1 March 1880, at Stowey House, Clapham Common, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey, an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his 2nd wife, the former Jane Grant, who became a leading supporter of the women's suffrage movement. He was named "Giles Lytton" after an early sixteenth-century Gyles Strachey and the first Earl of Lytton, who had been a friend of Richard Strachey's when he was Viceroy of India in the late 1870s. The Earl of Lytton was also Lytton Strachey's godfather. The Stracheys had thirteen children in total, ten of whom survived to adulthood, including Lytton's sister Dorothy Strachey. When Lytton was four years old, the family moved from Stowey House to 69 Lancaster Gate, north of Kensington Gardens. This would be their home until Sir Richard Strachey retired twenty years later. Lady Strachey was an enthusiast for languages and literature, making her children perform their own plays and write verse from early ages. She thought that Lytton had potential to become a great artist so she decided that he would receive the best education possible in order...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=144482 ... Read more

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LYTTON STRACHEY A Critical Study BY K. R. Srinivasa I engar, M. A. Professor oi English Lingaraj College, Belgaum University of Bombay , but rose, were his works SIR JOHN SQUIRE BOMBAY ALLIED PUBLISHERS 1988 First published September 1938. Printed in India at the Basel Mission Press, Canarag Ltd. Mancralore S. K. TO MY FRIEND LLEWELYN POWYS PREFACE I was first introduced to the works of Lytton Strachey in 1926 by the Rev. Jerome DSouza, S. J., my Professor of English, when I was a student in the B. A. class. Since then I have had several opportuni ties of reading Stracheys works and thinking about them. I have reviewed Elizabeth Essex, Portraits in Miniature and Characters Commentaries as they appeared, and I have taught Queen Victoria to my students in the Lingaraj College. And in the present study I have tried to state the facts concerning Strachey, both as a man and as a classic, as I under stand them, nothing extenuated nor aught set down in malice. r I prepared the first draft of this book in July 1937 and, on some of my friends and others who are entitled to speak with authority pointing out certain defects in my plan as well as its execution, re-typed it in March 1938 with substantial changes. It is superfluous to point out that, working in an out-of-the-way place in India, I could not command many of the facilities necessary for writing a work of this nature. I could gain access to few important books, and fewer journals. The heavy routine work in the College, too, was least conducive to the success of my undertaking. I had generally to play a lone hand with what stray notes I had jotted down in the past few years and what odds and ends that still fortunately remained in my memory. I should here express my gratitude to Mr. James Strachey, and to Messrs. Chatto Windus and Messrs. Thcfrnton Butterworth Ltd., for giving me viii PREFACE permission to make the quotations from Lytton Stracheys works embodied in this book. Mr. James Strachey has also gone through the typescript and generously helped me to rectify a few inaccuracies in the biographical section. I am also grateful to Mr. V. K. Ayappan Pillai, Professor of English, Presidency College, Madras, the Rev. Jerome DSouza, S. J., Principal, St. Josephs College, Trichinopoly, my colleague Professor S. S. Basawanal, and Mr. M. Graham Brash and Mr. R. C. Burnell of Allied Publishers, Bombay, for many useful suggestions to my brother Mr. R. Bangaruswami lyengar for reading the proofs with me to Principal Dr. S. C. Nandimath of the Lingaraj College for helping me in various ways when-I was working on this book and to the Manager of the Basel Mission Press, Mangalore, for the promptness and taste with which he has been able to bring out this book. August 1938. K. R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE PREFACE vii I. LIFE 1 Ancestors Birth and early education Cambridge The Bloomsbury group Life in Wiltshire Early critical and biographical essays Professional reviewer Landmarks in French Literature His reaction to the War Eminent Victorians Views on militarism and patriotism Visit to Oxford and Cambridge Queen Victoria Books Characters Personal appearance The Son of Heaven Elizabeth fy Essex Portraits in Miniature Last years-His character. II. LITERARY HISTORY . . . .23 Classification of Stracheys works English Letter Writers-The Elizabethan letter writers The eighteenth century Horace Walpole Gray and Cowper Byron, Shelley, Keats, and Lamb General remarks on letter writers Landmarks in French Literature Its remarkable qualities Strachey on the Age of Louis XIV, on the Unities, on Racine Stracheys catholic tastes Human element in Landmarks Strachey on Voltaire. III... ... Read more