Lytton Strachey

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...

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...

Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John (wife of Augustus John , and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann , and Julia Strachey

Lytton Strachey visited RL and Leslie Runciman at Newcastle; at this time RL 's future second husband, Wogan Philipps , was sharing the house with the couple.

RL and Wogan Philipps were constant companions to Lytton Strachey at his home at Ham Spray, Ipsden, during the last weeks of his life.

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...

While younger than the principal figures and sometimes inclined to feel herself marginal, RL was positioned well within the Bloomsbury group. She was close friends with another younger associate, George Rylands . During the early...

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 ,...

Lytton Strachey arranged for KM and Virginia Woolf to meet.

DC made her first suicide attempt on the morning of Lytton Strachey 's death: she locked herself in her garage and attempted carbon monoxide poisoning, but was discovered when her household awoke.

EBCJ had many friends among the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf hovered between liking and disliking, feeling she could never become intimate with Topsy but welcoming the spruce shining mind. She was close...

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...

A number of writers rallied in support of RH . E. M. Forster and Leonard Woolf drafted a letter protesting the suppression of The Well of Loneliness. Its signatories included Bernard Shaw , T. S. Eliot

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.