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 ...

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.

David Denby’s new four-part essay celebration, entitled Eminent Jews, is a shout-out to Lytton Strachey’s 1918 four-person biography collection Eminent Victorians, which changed how prominent people ...

The title “Eminent Jews” naturally evokes “Eminent Victorians,” Lytton Strachey’s takedown of Victorian culture through crushing biographical essays on Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas ...

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 ...