Lytton Strachey

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

VW and Katherine Mansfield first met; before this Woolf had asked Lytton Strachey to arrange a meeting between them.

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 ...

Early members of what VW called Old Bloomsbury (to distinguish the original members of the group from later additions) included Virginia and Vanessa Stephen , Leonard Woolf , Clive Bell , E. M. Forster ,...

The cultural production of members of Bloomsbury was prodigious, embracing the imaginative, critical, and political writing of Virginia and Leonard Woolf , E. M. Forster , and Lytton Strachey , the economic theories of Maynard Keynes

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...

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...

Thinking of their mutual creative influence and of Fry's place in her family, Woolf surprised herself by grieving even more deeply for Fry than she had for another great friend, Lytton Strachey , who had...

Hermione Lee sees VW 's first novel as about the death of childhood and the confused awakening of adult sexuality. Julia Briggs writes: Death and love lie beneath the surface of life like monsters...

Quentin Bell reports that [a]s always, [Woolf] found publication an agitating business, and that when she received her own six copies, on 20 October, she immediately dispatched one to each of Vanessa , Clive Bell

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 living writers into two...

Lytton Strachey told Leonard Woolf that Virginia's story was a work of genius. The liquidity of the style fills me with envy . . . . How on earth does she make the English language...

The first reviews of Mrs. Dalloway came out in the same month as those of The Common Reader (first series). Both the Western Mail and the Scotsman dismissed the novel as beyond the general reader...

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...

Amabel Strachey , later AWE , wrote regularly for The Spectator, then owned by her father, John St Loe Strachey . Other relatives, such as Lytton Strachey , also contributed, and she was the journal's literary editor for 1922-3.