Lytton Strachey

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...

In Rome during the First World War, DW became a friend of two scholars, Geoffrey Scott , and Gerald Tyrwhitt, later Lord Berners . In the years after the war she formed her important...

QV 's subjects were eager to read selections from her journal, and the book sold quickly. Lytton Strachey believed that it was through her writings that [Victoria] touched the hearts of the public.

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

MT 's portrait by Romney was reproduced as frontispiece. The profits went to a House of Refuge for Unprotected Female Servants in Dublin—the favourite charity of MT 's mother. The work reached a...

JS 's lifelong friendship with writer Frances Marshall (later Partridge) first began when the two were girls together at Brackenhurst school. As an adult, JS spent much time at Ham Spray, the Wiltshire home...

After her return from Bryn Mawr in 1909, Ray Costelloe (later RS ) stayed with her friend Ellie Rendel (whose mother was an elder sister of Lytton Strachey ) at the Stracheys' home in Hampstead...

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.

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.

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

Lytton Strachey wrote caustically about these, but others were much more favourable.

After her death, Lytton Strachey portrayed FN in Eminent Victorians, in what might be seen as an attack. He reported that her mother had once cried: We are ducks who have hatched a wild...

Reviews were mixed. The Times called the book catty as well as too clever . . . by half, while the New York Times Book Review called it awkward and inflated while also accusing it...

LOM 's friendships were many and strongly felt. Developed mainly through her salons and other creative associations, they swept in Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Roger Fry , Joseph Conrad , T. S. and...

After her return from Paris, HM was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien and T. S. Eliot , Lytton Strachey , Molly and Desmond MacCarthy , Duncan Grant ,...