Lytton Strachey

The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt , reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment...

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...

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...

Dorothy Strachey also tutored her brother Lytton in English, History, and French for several months in 1897, after he left Leamington College .

Carrington painted the costumes for Lytton Strachey 's first staged play, The Son of Heaven, shown at the Scala Theatre in 1925.

After graduating from the Slade School of Art, DB became a professional artist. Her most famous early exhibition piece was War Widows, painted in 1916, in which a crowd of black-clad pregnant women take...

DC is known predominantly for her personal relationships with writer Lytton Strachey and other members of the Bloomsbury Group, but she produced much striking work—visual and literary—herself. André Derain and Simon Bussy gave her...

She sold the copyright to Robinson for two hundred pounds. She seems, however, to have resold copyright in both her novels later.Lytton Strachey wrote the introduction for a reprint of 1908...

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...

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.

Writing as Mopsa, DC won two guineas in a contest run by the weekend Observer: she entered a whimsical biographical essay on her companion Lytton Strachey , by then famous as an iconoclastic biographer.

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

She was very pleased with her model and with her rendering: I was completely overcome by her grandeur, and wit. I am painting her against the bookcase sitting full length in a chair, in a...

She called this her only successful work because her companion Lytton Stracheyliked it.