Lytton Strachey
The New Biography
1st Edition
Published on 1. July 2015
816 pages
978-1-78497-138-0 (ISBN)
Description
When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey first appeared in the late 1960s, it was hailed as a landmark in contemporary biography. Drawing on new material, published and unpublished, Holroyd completely revised and rewrote his masterwork in 1995 to tell the full story of this complex man and his world as it could not be told while many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still alive.
At the heart of the story is the poignant liaison between Strachey and the painter Dora Carrington. A panorama of the social, literary, political and sexual life of a generation, LYTTON STRACHEY reverberates in the mind like a great novel.
At the heart of the story is the poignant liaison between Strachey and the painter Dora Carrington. A panorama of the social, literary, political and sexual life of a generation, LYTTON STRACHEY reverberates in the mind like a great novel.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78497-138-0 (9781784971380)
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Person
Besides the biographies of Augustus John, Bernard Shaw and Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd has written two volumes of memoirs, Basil Street Blues and Mosaic. He was president of the Royal Society of Literature from 2003 - 2008 and is the only non-fiction writer to have been awarded the British Literature Prize. He lives in London and Somerset with his wife, the novelist Margaret Drabble.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Double Preface
- PART I
- CHAPTER I: LANCASTER GATE
- 1. Papa and Mama
- 2. Elephantiasis and Uncles
- 3. Marie Souvestre
- 4. Spellbound
- CHAPTER II: 'FUNNY LITTLE CREATURE'
- 1. Sea Air
- 2. 'Glad Day, Love and Duty'
- 3. 'Scraggs'
- CHAPTER III: LIVERPOOL
- 1. Preparations
- 2. The Melancholy of Anatomy
- 3. Diaries and Decisions
- CHAPTER IV: FRATRIBUS
- 1. Once Upon a Midnight
- 2. Palpitations, French and English
- 3. Characters
- 4. Blank, Blank, Blank
- CHAPTER V: BEETLES AND WATER-SPIDERS
- 1. Conversazione
- 2. Father Figures
- 3. A Rose-Water Revolution
- 4. The Good Life
- 5. Hastings's Creature
- 6. A New Friend and Rival
- 7. Sale vie and a Glimpse of Heaven
- PART II
- CHAPTER VI: POST-GRADUATE
- 1. Bubbles, Oysters and Potatoes
- 2. The Limbo of Unintimacy
- 3. Duncan Grant and his World
- 4. Men in Love
- 5. Influence funeste
- CHAPTER VII: INTENTIONS
- 1. The Travails of a Journeyman
- 2. The Spectatorial Experience
- 3. A Pocket Handkerchief on Mont Blanc
- 4. A Bad End
- CHAPTER VIII: THE WRONG TURNING
- 1. A Proposal of Marriage
- 2. On Gray and Purple Seas
- 3. Swedish Experiment, French Solution
- PART III
- CHAPTER IX: THE CHANGING PAST
- 1. 'Chère Marquise' and 'Cher Serpent'
- 2. Mumps and a Beard
- 3. The Strange Case of Rupert Brooke
- 4. A Spiritual Revolution
- CHAPTER X: TOWN VERSUS THE COUNTRY
- 1. The Angel, The Devil and A Son of Heaven
- 2. The Chestnuts
- 3. Oscillations
- 4.Grand Tour
- 5. Peregrinations and Angoisses
- CHAPTER XI: THE LACKET
- 1. Alone with a Widow
- 2. Scenes from Post-Edwardian England
- 3. Two Types of Patriotism
- 4. Undertones of War
- CHAPTER XII: WAR AND PEACE
- 1. Garsington
- 2. Conscription
- 3. The Virgin and the Gipsy
- 4. Unregarded Hours
- 5. Fragile Loves and Secondary Hearts
- CHAPTER XIII: TIDMARSH
- 1. Drama and Uncertainty
- 2. Summer Manoeuvres
- 3. The Mill House
- 4. 'Tout est Possible'
- PART IV
- CHAPTER XIV: A LIFE APART
- 1. Success, Money, Other People
- 2. The Beau Monde
- 3. Queen Victoria and Other Essays
- 4. Memoir of an Infantry Officer
- 5. High Life, Low Life and Literary Life
- 6. The Question of Things Happening
- 7. South from Pangbourne
- 8. The End of Queen Victoria
- 9. Moons and Honeymoons
- CHAPTER XV: EMINENT EDWARDIAN
- 1. The Great Panjandrum
- 2. Kissing and Fishing
- 3. Views and Reviews
- 4. Valentine's Day
- 5. Diplomatic Asides
- 6. An Ibsen Ending
- CHAPTER XVI: HAM SPRAY HOUSE
- 1. Paper-games and Pussy-cats
- 2. Attachment
- 3. A Moderate Success
- 4. Some More Plot and Fresh Stirrings
- 5. Fiddling with Elizabeth
- 6. Waiting for Roger
- 7. Together
- 8. End of an Era
- CHAPTER XVII: ANOTHER WORLD
- 1. Elizabeth, C'est Moi!
- 2. Two to Come and One to Go
- 3. Ambitions
- 4. A Summer Interlude
- 5. Things that Pass and Things in General
- 6. Farewell to France
- 8. The Final Silence
- EPILOGUE
- Preview
- Bibliographical Appendix: Thirty Years On
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Index
- About Lytton Strachey
- Reviews
- About Michael Holroyd
- Biographies by Michael Holroyd
- Michael Holroyd's Memoirs
- Great Lives: Literary Lives
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
