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...Lady with a Lamp is reputedly based on the brief Nightingale biography in cadaverous Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. Between the play and the Strachey piece, however, there are noticeable differences in characterization and fact. To Playwright Berkeley, Nurse Nightingale, reverently and somewhat palely acted by Edith Evans, is a sort of Maid of Orleans. He acknowledges "securing aid and authorization of Miss Nightingale's relatives." To Mr. Strachey, however, Florence Nightingale was more like the kind of person Carrie Nation might have turned out to be had she been interested in caring for the sick instead...
POWER AND GLORY, The Life of Boies Penrose - Walter Davenport - Putnam ($3)- Many a rough, brutal life is epitaphed into marmoreal propriety; but this biography of hardboiled, cynical Boies Penrose fits its subject. From the typical disillusioned newspaperman's attitude, with no kinship to the polished Lytton Strachey school, Power and Glory sets forth briefly, competently, in blunt, sensational journalese, the true story of a bold...
...Author- When Adeline Virginia Stephen was born in London in 1882, daughter to once-famed Sir Leslie Stephen, literary critic and freethinker, she was related to half the most scholarly families in England (some of them: Darwins, Symondses, Stracheys). When she grew up to be a tall, pale, Burne-Jonesy young lady, she and her sister Vanessa lived together in Bloomsbury. Around them soon collected the nucleus of the "Bloomsbury Group" of writers (Clive Bell, Leonard Woolf, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey). In 1912 Virginia Stephen married Leonard Woolf; together they founded the Hogarth Press. Critics soon became respectfully aware...
...hard to realize that she is only 39. Like her diplomatist husband. Harold Xicolson. she is of the quiet and well-mannered school, in the best tradition of English life & letters, a member of the gently brilliant Bloomsbury group that includes her good friends Virginia Woolf. Lytton Strachey, E. M. 1-orster. John Maynard Keynes. Knole Castle, her birthplace and the home of her ancestors, is one of the most celebrated houses in England, has 365 rooms, more years than (hat. When she is in England. Authoress Sackville-West lives with her husband and two sons at "Seven-oaks," near...
...Author. If you had never seen a picture of Giles Lytton Strachey you would never think from reading his books that he is spindle-shanked and spectacled, with a long red beard and a falsetto voice. Cousin of the late John St. Loe Strachey, editor of the London Spectator, Lytton Strachey first made a name for himself by writing Landmarks in French Literature (1912); nine years later Queen Victoria made him a bestseller. Unmarried, 51, Strachey lives in London but goes to the country to work; "it isn't so much the noises of London that prevent concentration...