Lytton Strachey

01 March 1880 - 21 January 1932

Standard Name: Strachey, Lytton

Used Form: (Giles) Lytton Strachey

Connections

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Travel	Rosamond Lehmann	RL and Wogan Philipps toured France with Lytton Strachey and George Rylands . Siegel, Ruth. Rosamond Lehmann: A Thirties Writer. Peter Lang. 81
Travel	Dorothy Bussy	Dorothy Strachey (later DB ) and her brother Lytton Strachey left England for an extended trip to Gibraltar and Egypt. Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin. 73-8
Travel	Dorothy Bussy	Dorothy Strachey (later DB ) holidayed in the south of France with her siblings Marjorie and Lytton Strachey . Holroyd, Michael. Lytton Strachey: A Biography. Penguin. 156-8
Travel	Gertrude Stein	GS , Alice Toklas , Lytton Strachey , and Bertrand Russell were guests at Alfred North Whitehead 's home in Sarsen Land, Lockridge, when news of the German invasion of Belgium induced them to prolong their stay. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 84-5 Brinnin, John Malcolm, and John Ashbery. The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and her World. Addison-Wesley. 212, 215
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Mary Butts	In this essay Butts has some praise for Old Bloomsbury, particularly Lytton Strachey , Butts, Mary. “Bloomsbury”. Modernism/Modernity, edited by Camilla Bagg et al., Vol. 5 , No. 2, pp. 32-45. 34 but criticises it for relativism, artificiality, and lack of engagement with the real world. She credits Wyndham Lewis for...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Virginia Woolf	Character in Fiction, the further essay which emerged from Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown, is reflective, philosophical, fictional, its tone assertive, witty, ironical, and serious. It ranges Woolf, Virginia. The Essays of Virginia Woolf. Editors McNeillie, Andrew and Stuart Nelson Clarke, Hogarth Press. 3: 421 living writers into two...
Textual Production	Dora Carrington	At Ham Spray in 1928, DC depicted Adam and Eve in a mosaic around Lytton Strachey 's bedroom fireplace; this image was later replaced with Boris Anrep 's painted hermaphrodite (which according to critic Jane Hill
Textual Production	Dora Carrington	Carrington created her best known painting, a portrait of her beloved companion , Lytton Strachey.
Textual Production	Dora Carrington	Carrington's diaries incorporate lived moments restructured as short stories, some titled (A Short Love Affaire or The Danish Grave and The Reverse of the Medal, for instance); poetry (On a Picture of...
Textual Production	Amabel Williams-Ellis	This pageant-like text may have been inspired by or adapted from The Masque of Empire written by Amy Strachey and performed by the village children (including Amabel as Britannia) at Newlands Corner in March 1908...
Textual Production	Dora Carrington	Carrington painted Tidmarsh Mill, inspired by the house she had recently moved into with author Lytton Strachey ; critic Mary Ann Caws calls the work Carrington's unchallenged masterpiece. Caws, Mary Ann. Women of Bloomsbury: Virginia, Vanessa, and Carrington. Routledge. 149 Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 56
Textual Production	Dora Carrington	Beginning in 1918, Carrington and Lytton Strachey composed poems for each other on their respective birthdays. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 129, 156
Textual Production	Mary Agnes Hamilton	MAH felt that the vogue, fed by Lytton Strachey and others, for non-admiring or debunking biography had gone far enough. She and her sister Margot joked about founding a society for the protection of the...
Textual Features	Virginia Woolf	Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Lee, Hermione. Virginia Woolf. Chatto and Windus. 154 Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...
Residence	Dora Carrington	DC and Lytton Strachey moved in together at Tidmarsh Mill near Pangbourne in Berkshire; it was leased for them by friends who were then free to visit on weekends. Gerzina, Gretchen. Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932. John Murray. 127 Hill, Jane, and Michael Holroyd. The Art of Dora Carrington. Herbert Press. 138

Timeline

From early summer 1915

Garsington Manor, near Oxford, the home of Lady Ottoline and Philip Morrell , became a centre for many pacifists, conscientious objectors, and non-pacifist critics of the war.

1918

Two years after her best-known portrait of Lytton Strachey , Carrington (Dora Carrington) painted another portrait of him, sitting in a deck-chair in the garden at Tidmarsh Mill, where they lived.

5 February 2004

Frances Partridge , diarist, memoirist, and the longest-surviving member of the Bloomsbury group, died at the age of very nearly a hundred and four.

Texts

Strachey, Lytton. Queen Victoria. Harcourt Brace, 1921.

Strachey, Lytton. The Shorter Strachey. Editors Holroyd, Michael and Paul Levy, Oxford University Press, 1980.