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Lytton Strachey junto a Dora Carrington. Giles Lytton Strachey (Londres, 1 de marzo de 1880 - Ham, Wiltshire, 21 de enero de 1932) fue un escritor y biógrafo inglés, miembro del Círculo de Bloomsbury.
Giles Lytton Strachey (/ ˈ dʒ aɪ l z ˈ l ɪ t ən ˈ s t r eɪ tʃ i /; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) 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.
Lytton Strachey (born March 1, 1880, London—died Jan. 21, 1932, Ham Spray House, near Hungerford, Berkshire, Eng.) was an 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 ...
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Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918, and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era.
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Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a historian, literary critic, and Bloomsbury wit whose ironic prose style and sense of rupture with the Victorian past helped to define English literary modernism.
Hace 4 días · British biographer. The son of the distinguished soldier and Indian administrator Sir Richard Strachey, Lytton Strachey took after his mother in his artistic leanings. He was educated at Abbotsholme School, Derbyshire, and Leamington College, before going to Liverpool University (1897–99).
Su primer gran éxito, y su logro más famoso, fue Victorianos eminentes (1918) una colección de cuatro breves biografías de héroes victorianos. Con un agudo sentido del humor, expuso las debilidades humanas de sus súbditos, y lo que vio como la hipocresía en el centro de la moral victoriana.
