Sickly, eccentric, acerbic and homosexual, Strachey is taken with Carrington at first sight--he thinks the androgynous girl is a boy. She falls in love with him at an equally odd moment: about to clip ...

THE TITLE OF THIS BOOK is so misleading, you might applaud it for sheer nerve. The Letters of Lytton Strachey? Some of them, yes, but a true collection of Strachey’s letters would require six volumes.

LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $21.95. We are the mysterious priests of a new and amazing civilization. We are greater than our fathers; we are ...

This is Queen Victoria’s eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max’s brisk, elegiac tribute ...

Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week. I recently bought a copy of Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” at the ominously named Last Bookstore, in downtown Los ...

Lytton Strachey picked his moment to make sport of Thomas Arnold and other Victorians. Tate Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY Lytton Strachey made up the business about Thomas Arnold having short ...

When it first appeared in 1918, Lytton Strachey’s Eminent Victorians was a bracing tonic: an antidote to the bloated hagiographies of nineteenth-century heroes and heroines—those “mouthing bungling ...

It would be difficult to find a more shattering refutation of the lessons of cheap morality than the life of James Boswell. One of the most extraordinary successes in the history of civilization was ...

No feature of the literary history of Europe in the last few years is more remarkable than the simultaneous appearance in Germany, France, and England of a new conception of biography. Emil Ludwig in ...