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Hace 4 días · A half century earlier that title could have been used and understood in all sincerity. When Lytton Strachey used it, no one could mistake its ironic intent. Strachey made no secret of his purpose or his method. ‘ Ordinary history’, he explained in his preface ‘proceeded by the direct method of scrupulous narration’.
Hace 2 días · Well-acquainted with Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, he was on intimate terms with H. G. Wells. Sammler explains that Wells’ ideas were based on “the effective application of scientific principles to the enlargement of human life; the building of a planned, orderly and beautiful world society”.
Hace 4 días · Equally stellar names appear on the list of biography winners, including Peter Ackroyd, Martin Amis, Quentin Bell, John Buchan, Richard Ellmann, Hermione Lee and Lytton Strachey. In the past decade Amit Chaudhuri, Craig Brown, Lucy Ellmann, and Zia Haider Rahman have joined the illustrious list.
Hace 2 días · In 2015, thirty-four letters and cards that Mallory wrote to Lytton Strachey were auctioned at Bonhams. They were written over a period of twelve years, from 1909 - when Mallory was still an undergraduate at Cambridge - to 1921, while traveling to Tibet and his first encounter (reconnaissance) with Everest.
Hace 2 días · Through his companions James Strachey and Geoffrey Keynes, Mallory got to know their elder brothers, Lytton Strachey and John Maynard Keynes, who were members of the Bloomsbury Group. Through the Stracheys, he met and befriended their cousin, the painter Duncan Grant, also a Bloomsbury member.
Hace 1 día · There were few Oxford-influenced Anglican parishes in England that did not mount such missions, or "Workingman's Institutes," as they were called. In general, as the historian Lytton Strachey has written of the movement's reception, especially among the young, "the notion of taking Christianity literally was delightful to earnest minds."
Hace 4 días · Like many young women born into wealthy families in the inter-war years, Jean did not attend school. There were governesses at home, most notably Lytton Strachey’s niece, Julia (later a novelist in her own right), who went with them to Clovelly one winter. But going to Oxford was not the obvious route for young ladies of this ...
