MICHAEL HOLROYD’S two-volume Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $21.95) runs to almost 1200 large pages and well beyond half a million words. A performance so ...

Lytton Strachey is one of the key figures in the cultural life of the 20th Century, and his letters are a literary treasure trove of the man and his world, as well as a record of the startling and ...

Lytton Strachey’s explosive biographies demolished reputations – not even Florence Nightingale escaped his wrath. But what is his impact on life writing? A hundred years ago, Lytton Strachey published ...

Ahead of a new BBC drama about the influential interwar group, including Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey, here are 10 key moments in their story Phoebe Fox as Vanessa Bell, James Norton as Duncan ...

LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $21.95. We are the mysterious priests of a new and amazing civilization. We are greater than our fathers; we are ...

Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week. I recently bought a copy of Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” at the ominously named Last Bookstore, in downtown Los ...

London — IF the cellphone had been invented in Lytton Strachey’s time, he would’ve had it plastered to his ear. One can just imagine the highly social writer, a hard-core member of the famous ...

Lytton Strachey picked his moment to make sport of Thomas Arnold and other Victorians. Tate Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY Lytton Strachey made up the business about Thomas Arnold having short ...