Lytton Strachey, 1880-1932
Biographical note
British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Works
- Landmarks in French Literature [1912]
- Eminent Victorians [1918]
Cardinal Manning -- Florence Nightingale -- Dr. Arnold -- The End of General Gordon - Queen Victoria [1921]
- Books and Characters : French and English [1922]
Racine -- Sir Thomas Browne -- Shakespeare’s Final Period -- The Lives of the Poets -- Madame Du Deffand -- Voltaire and England -- A Dialogue -- Voltaire’s Tragedies -- Voltaire and Frederick the Great -- The Rousseau Affair -- The Poetry of Blake -- The Last Elizabethan -- Henri Beyle -- Lady Hester Stanhope -- Mr. Creevey - Elizabeth and Essex [1928]
- Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays [1931]
