
When Michael Holroyd's life of Strachey appeared in 1967, it changed the course of modern biography, setting a new standard for the recounting of literary lives and launching the enduring Bloomsbury revival. In the 1960s, however, many of Strachey's friends and lovers were still...




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Lytton Strachey genius wit iconoclast biographer pacifist and homosexual campaigner was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury. In the 1960s he was seen as a progenitor of the hippy cult. Now he appears as a far more subversive and challenging figure. He...

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"It is impossible to suppose that this 'Life' will ever be superseded . . . the best literary biography to appear for many years."--John Rothenstein, New York Times "Written with vivacity and scrupulousness. . . . Michael Holroyd] has a great novelist's sense of the obstinate...


"A triumphant success. . . . His prose is confident, clear . . . occasionally perfect." -Dennis Potter, "The Times" (London)