Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey
noun
English biographer and leading member of the Bloomsbury Group (1880-1932)
Instance Hypernyms: ↑biographer
Member Holonyms: ↑Bloomsbury Group

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Lytton Strachey [Lytton Strachey]
(1880–1932) an English writer and one of the most famous members of the ↑Bloomsbury Group. He was noted for his intelligent humour, and for creating a new style of ↑biography full of amusing remarks and without too much respect for the subject of the book. His best-known work is ↑Eminent Victorians. He also wrote about Queen ↑Elizabeth I and Queen ↑Victoria.

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