biography
| name: |
Strachey, (Giles) Lytton
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pronunciation:
[straychee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1880–1932)
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| biography:
| Biographer and critic, born in London, UK. He studied at Cambridge, lived in London, and became a member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers and artists. He began his writing career as a critic, but turned to biography, creating a literary bombshell with his Eminent Victorians (1918), an iconoclastic challenge to the self-assured, monumental studies previously typical of this genre. Later works included Queen Victoria (1921) and Elizabeth and Essex (1928). His approach to biography was revolutionary, and marked a turning-point in the genre. His method was to be selective, irreverent, and witty, as well as accurately perceptive. It set the tone for generations of biographers to come. |
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