Lytton Strachey
(1880-1932), Critic and biographer; son of Sir Richard Strachey(Giles) Lytton Strachey
Sitter in 144 portraits
Artist associated with 5 portraits
The son of a soldier administrator in the Colonial Service, Strachey went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. While at Cambridge, Strachey joined the ranks of the 'Apostles', a select group including Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster. These individuals later formed the nucleus of the Bloomsbury Group, and Strachey remained a central figure throughout the heyday of Old Bloomsbury, prior to the outbreak of the First World War. His iconoclastic biographical essays Eminent Victorians (1918), set a new standard for biography for the twentieth century, and Elizabeth and Essex (1928), about Queen Elizabeth I, was influential in the way it mixed biography with fiction.
Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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Lytton Strachey; Virginia Woolf
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1923
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by Kyrle Leng
bromide snapshot print, circa 1924
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by Kyrle Leng
bromide snapshot print, circa 1924
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Julian with Garsington visitors
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Julian with Garsington visitors
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Philip Charles Thomson Ritchie; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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Lord David Cecil; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, late 1924
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1925
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Lytton Strachey and an unknown sitter
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Philip Edward Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Philip Edward Morrell; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Dora Carrington; Stephen Tomlin; Walter John Herbert ('Sebastian') Sprott; Lytton Strachey
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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Dora Carrington; Stephen Tomlin; Lytton Strachey; Walter John Herbert ('Sebastian') Sprott
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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Related People
- Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (sister)
- Jane Simone ('Janie') Bussy (niece)
- Elinor Rendel (née Strachey) (sister)
- Elizabeth Rendel (niece)
- Frances Elinor ('Ellie') Rendel (niece)
- William Vincent Rendel (nephew)
- Barbara Strachey (Hultin, later Halpern) (niece)
- Christopher Strachey (nephew)
- James Beaumont Strachey (brother)
- Jane Maria (née Grant), Lady Strachey (mother)
- Sir John Strachey (uncle)
- John Strachey (nephew)
- Julia Frances Strachey (niece)
- Marjorie Strachey (sister)
- Oliver Strachey (brother)
- Olivia Strachey (sister)
- (Joan) Pernel Strachey (sister)
- Philippa ('Pippa') Strachey (sister)
- Ralph Strachey (brother)
- Sir Richard Strachey (father)
- Richard John Strachey (brother)
- Richard Philip Farquhar Strachey (nephew)
- Ursula Margaret Wentzel (née Strachey) (niece)
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