Lytton Strachey
Birth date: March 01, 1880
Died: January 21, 1932
Lytton Strachey's Books
This book definitely provided interesting insight into the Victorian mindset - the sincere religious feeling and the resultant extreme anxiety was particularly well portrayed. My problems were mostly with the writing style. A lot of it is written in long, hard to follow sentences or in meandering as...
I love letters. Maybe it’s an innate snoopiness, maybe it’s that people tend to be more unguarded in their private communications, but I find that reading the letters of interesting characters from literature and history is often much more enlightening (and entertaining) than reading their biographi...
Strachey was beloved by Virginia Woolf, plus it's about Victorians--two great tastes! I expect this book to be like eating peanut butter swirled into chocolate. om nom nom.