Lytton Strachey: The New Biography
by Holroyd, Michael
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Lytton Strachey: The New Biography, Holroyd, Michael. Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux, NY, 1995. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 779 pp. with two sections of black and white plates and 2 colored portrait plates, bibliographical appendix, notes, index. Contents are fine except for a small and light moisture stain to lower edge of text block affecting title pages to end of preliminaries(xxxv). Light wear to card covers.
Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English writer, critic, biographer and a founding and influential member of the Bloomsbury Group. His best-known works are 'Eminent Victorians', published in 1918 and 'Queen Victoria; (1921) He lived with the painter Dora Carrington. A year later, he met and fell in love with Ralph Partridge, a distinguished veteran of the war, and Partridge married Carrington in 1921 in order to maintain the love triangle with Strachey. Their lives are portrayed in the 1995 British film 'Carrington', starring Emma Thompson and directed by Christopher Hampton.
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