Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey arranged for KM and Virginia Woolf to meet.

Guests here included some of the women who were to be closest to Carrington until her death: Dorelia John (wife of Augustus John , and now a neighbour), writer Rosamond Lehmann , and Julia Strachey

Thinking of their mutual creative influence and of Fry's place in her family, Woolf surprised herself by grieving even more deeply for Fry than she had for another great friend, Lytton Strachey , who had...

The others who were there included J. T. Sheppard , Fredegond Shove , Carrington , David Garnett , G. F. Short , Lytton Strachey , and Evan Morgan . Mansfield had parted with Murry...

ES had many friendships, and there were few notables in the artistic world whom she did not meet. Her friendships were quite volatile, with frequent quarrels, sometimes caused by the practical jokes and the heightened...

After her return from Paris, HM was occupied with various friendships and interests. By now she could count Vivien and T. S. Eliot , Lytton Strachey , Molly and Desmond MacCarthy , Duncan Grant ,...

Lytton Strachey wrote caustically about these, but others were much more favourable.

LOM 's friendships were many and strongly felt. Developed mainly through her salons and other creative associations, they swept in Lytton Strachey , Virginia Woolf , Roger Fry , Joseph Conrad , T. S. and...

One of Lee's beliefs, pronounced that evening, was: Patriotism . . . is the power to be ashamed of your country.MAH credits Lady Ottoline with holding the pacifist movement together; many meetings took...

DC made her first suicide attempt on the morning of Lytton Strachey 's death: she locked herself in her garage and attempted carbon monoxide poisoning, but was discovered when her household awoke.

EBCJ had many friends among the Bloomsbury group. Virginia Woolf hovered between liking and disliking, feeling she could never become intimate with Topsy but welcoming the spruce shining mind. She was close...

QV 's subjects were eager to read selections from her journal, and the book sold quickly. Lytton Strachey believed that it was through her writings that [Victoria] touched the hearts of the public.

The prominent literary scholar Basil de Selincourt , reviewing the book, wrote that it was in the Strachey style, a little work of art, in its way, but inspired by the dangerous conscientiousness of disillusionment...

Reviews were mixed. The Times called the book catty as well as too clever . . . by half, while the New York Times Book Review called it awkward and inflated while also accusing it...

Lytton Strachey told Leonard Woolf that Virginia's story was a work of genius. The liquidity of the style fills me with envy . . . . How on earth does she make the English language...