Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932

Lytton Strachey was born to an upper-middle class family in London, and educated at Cambridge, where he was part of the rebellious Apostles, a precursor to the Bloomsbury Group. Strachey became an essayist and literary critic; he also wrote poetry, but is best remembered as a biographer. Although he wrote some conventional biographies, his best work was Eminent Victorians, a collection of biographical essays that relied on Strachey's trademark psychological insight rather than exhaustive research, an influential approach that made reading biography more entertaining and helped energize the genre. Strachey's personal life, always influenced by his homosexuality, was unconventional and often unsatisfying.

From the description of Lytton Strachey notes, portrait, and signed quotation, 1924-1930. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 72827711

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