Word: strachey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Lytton Strachey proclaims no novel theory regarding...
Virgin Queen-delicately he even grants her her virginity. But to Lytton Strachey no meretricious novelty is necessary, such is the compelling freshness of his interpretation, and such the uncanny vitality of his art. Elizabeth has always made engaging reading, but from Strachey's pages she emerges in all her living bizarre glamor to fascinate a jaded 20th century as surely as she fascinated the sensitive enthusiasts of her day. And it is not the youthful Elizabeth, but Elizabeth in her triumphant old age-her enemies outplayed and outlived; her darlings still vying for her favors. In vivid galaxy...
...study of Queen Victoria, Strachey crystallized a period of history; in his portrait of Elizabeth he creates a symbol of sovereignty, withal flesh and blood...
...Author. Synonym of biography in the new manner, Strachey takes his work far more seriously than the host of whippersnappers who have travestied his methods in the six years since Queen Victoria was published. Three years' solid work expended on that book resulted in what the author called "suffering from mental prostration"-horrible to consider what effect the present more brilliant volume will have...
...solid work" Mr. Strachey betakes him and his gangling bones to the country, to escape, not so much the London noises, as the distracting society of Bloomsbury literati-VirginiaWoolf, Clive Bell, Osbert Sitwell (TIME...