Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey proposed marriage to Virginia Stephen (later VW ), then quickly retracted his proposal.

AG 's paternal aunts were closely associated in their youth with the young John Henry Newman and his brother Francis W. Newman . Sarah married a curate working for William Wilson (AG 's grandfather)....

Adrian (1883-1948) was the youngest Stephen child. After Vanessa's marriage he lived with Virginia at 29 Fitzroy Square, then moved with her to 38 Brunswick Square. Like Thoby, he studied at Trinity College, Cambridge ...

AG was distantly related to the diarist and memoirist Elizabeth Grant , and thus to the forebears of twentieth-century writers Julia Strachey , Lytton Strachey , Dorothy Bussy , and Amabel Williams-Ellis .

DB 's most famous brother was (Giles) Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), author and Bloomsbury Group member, whose works include Eminent Victorians (1918), Queen Victoria (1921), and Elizabeth and Essex (1928).

Carrington rejected the offer, and she and Gertler did not begin their physical affair until early 1917. This was short-lived: their relationship ended shortly after 14 February 1918, when a furiously jealous...

Leonard Woolf was a close Cambridge friend of Virginia's brother Thoby Stephen and a member of the Apostles . A Jew, with family roots in London and Amsterdam, he grew up in London, first...

Their friendship was at first somewhat shaky, but warmed considerably. Writing in her diary on 6 June 1918, Woolf described DC as such a bustling eager creature, so red & solid, & at the same...

Leonard had met Virginia and Vanessa in Thoby's rooms in 1901, and had fallen in love with Vanessa. On 17 November 1904 he dined at 46 Gordon Square just before leaving to take up...

Lytton Strachey , one of Julia's uncles, was a hugely successful writer whose works include the revolutionary Eminent Victorians (1918). Julia was first introduced to the Stracheys' wide and distinguished social circles as a young girl.

Carrington's husband then moved in officially with Carrington and Lytton Strachey . Extramarital affairs of the parties to this unusual marriage had begun by March 1922, yet Carrington and Partridge remained married for the rest...

DC met her greatest love, the writer Lytton Strachey , during a three-day stay at Asheham, the Sussex home of Virginia (and Leonard) Woolf .

Quite soon after this all her deepest concern became focussed on Lytton Strachey , who was dying painfully from undiagnosed stomach cancer. She clung to his deathbed statement: Darling Carrington I love her. I...

As part of a suicide watch around Carrington organized by her friends, Virginia and Leonard Woolf visited her at Ham Spray on 10 March. Virginia later wrote in her diary: She burst into tears &...

Lytton Strachey , biographer and essayist, died of cancer at Ham Spray near Hungerford, Berkshire.