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Lytton Strachey
Title: Lytton Strachey
Category: Society & Culture / People
Details: Words: 508 | Pages: 2.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Lytton Strachey
Lytton Strachey, English biographer, was born in 1880. He was an openly gay member of the artistically talented Bloomsbury Group, centering on Leonard and Virginia Woolf. (Strachey had once proposed to Virginia née Stephen, but she laughed. When he was conscripted in World War I, he declared himself to be a pacifist. When the board asked what he would do if a Hun were raping his sister, he said that he would try to interpose …showed first 75 words of 508 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 508 total…Elizabeth and Essex (1928), and Portraits in Miniature (1931). His critical articles, often appearing in The Spectator, were collected in Books and Characters (1922) and in Characters and Commentaries (1933).
Questions
Would you consider Strachey an impressionist biographer i.e. he gives short bursts of biographical material and allows these small insights to paint a bigger picture, or is he too intrusive with his own interpretation?
What affect do you think being in the Bloolmsbury group had on Strachey?
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