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ELIZABETH AND ESSEX, A Tragic History-Lytton Strachey-Harcourt Brace...
...suppression of The Well of Loneliness, before the Attorney General of Great Britain, Sir Thomas Inskip. National interest focused on the appeal because Miss Hall's book had received the indorsement of a petition to the Attorney General signed by John Drinkwater, Hugh Walpole, John Middleton Murray, Lytton Strachey, Arnold Bennett...
...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...