Lytton Strachey By Himself
A Self-Portrait
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 2015
248 pages
978-1-78497-419-0 (ISBN)
Description
While working on his two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd had access to the Strachey archives. From the same source he collected all Strachey's diaries and memoirs, which together in this volume form an intermittent but not disconnected autobiography.
From childhood diaries to the introspective and often anguished records of late adolescence emerges an intimate self-portrait, valuable for its own sake and also for the light it sheds on the most gifted members of the Bloomsbury Group. In addition to the informal diaries, Strachey wrote and read to the Memoir Club two autobiographical essays (also published here) which may be judged among the finest and most characteristic of his writing.
From childhood diaries to the introspective and often anguished records of late adolescence emerges an intimate self-portrait, valuable for its own sake and also for the light it sheds on the most gifted members of the Bloomsbury Group. In addition to the informal diaries, Strachey wrote and read to the Memoir Club two autobiographical essays (also published here) which may be judged among the finest and most characteristic of his writing.
More details
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
ISBN-13
978-1-78497-419-0 (9781784974190)
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Persons
Lytton Strachey was a British writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group, he was best known for writing EMINENT VICTORIANS, a collection of biographies of Victorian heroes: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.
Content
- Intro
- Welcome Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Commentary
- Lancaster Gate
- Chapter 2: Commentary
- Diary of Giles Lytton Strachey in the Summer Holidays of 1890, 1891
- Chapter 3: Commentary
- Diary of G. L. Strachey
- Chapter 4: Commentary
- The Story of Sir John Snooks, Kt, Written by Himself in the Reign of Our Sovereign Queen Elizabeth and in the Year Of Our Lord 1586
- Chapter 5: Commentary
- Diary 1898
- Chapter 6: Commentary
- First and Last Will and Testament
- The Trinity Diary Nov 1902
- Examination Papers in Sex Education
- Chapter 7: Commentary
- Aug 6th 1905
- Chapter 8: Commentary
- Diary - 1910
- Chapter 9: Commentary
- March 8, 1913
- Mr Cornish
- March 16, 1913
- Chapter 10: Commentary
- Conscientious Objector
- Chapter 11: Commentary
- Monday June 26th 1916
- Chapter 12: Commentary
- May 17th - May 15th 1919
- Chapter 13: Commentary
- A Fortnight in France
- Preview
- About Lytton Strachey by Himself
- Reviews
- About Lytton Strachey
- About Michael Holroyd
- Biographies by Michael Holroyd
- Michael Holroyd's Memoirs
- An Invitation from the Publisher
- Copyright
