Lytton Strachey is one of the key figures in the cultural life of the 20th Century, and his letters are a literary treasure trove of the man and his world, as well as a record of the startling and ...

Virginia Woolf dedicated her first collection of essays “To Lytton Strachey.” According to Woolf’s diary, Strachey said The Common Reader “was divine, a classic.” Before reprinting the essays in ...

Sickly, eccentric, acerbic and homosexual, Strachey is taken with Carrington at first sight--he thinks the androgynous girl is a boy. She falls in love with him at an equally odd moment: about to clip ...

LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $21.95. We are the mysterious priests of a new and amazing civilization. We are greater than our fathers; we are ...

Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week. I recently bought a copy of Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” at the ominously named Last Bookstore, in downtown Los ...

This is Queen Victoria’s eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max’s brisk, elegiac tribute ...

No feature of the literary history of Europe in the last few years is more remarkable than the simultaneous appearance in Germany, France, and England of a new conception of biography. Emil Ludwig in ...

“Those were the days.” Everyone has heard it, and most have said it. But were they? Particularly in the largely free parts of the world, today invariably exceeds yesterday. Looking back to 100 years ...

It would be difficult to find a more shattering refutation of the lessons of cheap morality than the life of James Boswell. One of the most extraordinary successes in the history of civilization was ...

Lytton Strachey picked his moment to make sport of Thomas Arnold and other Victorians. Tate Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY Lytton Strachey made up the business about Thomas Arnold having short ...