Lytton Strachey

Early in his time in Cambridge Moore became friends with some of the young men who went on to form the ˜Bloomsbury Group™, such as Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf and Maynard Keynes.

George Edward Moore Baldwin, Tom 2004

Geraint Lewis/Writer Pictures Sir Michael Holroyd With his own two-volume "Lytton Strachey" 1967 and 1969, Sir Michael broke the mold twice.

Revelations From a Biographer Paul Levy 2010

Lytton Strachey observed, "Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary."

Gretchen Rubin: What's Your Six-Word Secret To Happiness? Gretchen Rubin 2011

Mr. Holroyd's first book, "Hugh Kingsmill" (1964), was about a biographer, and his second was a two-volume life of another, Lytton Strachey (1967-68).

The Biographers' Biographer Carl Rollyson 2011

Lytton Strachey observed, "Perhaps the best test of a man's intelligence is his capacity for making a summary."

Gretchen Rubin: What's Your Six-Word Secret To Happiness? Gretchen Rubin 2011

He is indisputably the writer who changed the nature of biography more than anyone with the exception of one of his own subjects, Lytton Strachey, the Bloomsbury Group historian who himself put an end to the Victorian practice of chronicling the lives of the great in detailed, multivolumed, but discreet accounts of their daily doings.

Revelations From a Biographer Paul Levy 2010

Since 1972 we have been co-Trustees and executors of the Lytton Strachey estate.

Revelations From a Biographer Paul Levy 2010

Kear does not want to “make a sensation,” nor does he want to be accused to “imitating Lytton Strachey.”

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

Kear does not want to “make a sensation,” nor does he want to be accused to “imitating Lytton Strachey.”

Posterity makes its choice 2009

Florence Nightingale, perhaps realistically painted by Lytton Strachey as a megalomaniac bully but a highly effective one nonetheless, would be turning in her grave.

[the crimean war] and the persistence of old issues 2009