Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was a British writer and literary critic. One of the founding members of the Bloomsbury Group, he began the trend of the psychological biography. His father was a British officer and his mother was a leading suffragist, who decided that Giles Lytton would receive the best education from among their eleven children.

Lytton Strachey attended Trinity College, Cambridge, where he and several other students formed the genesis of what would become the Bloomsbury Group. By the time he was 30, Strachey was traveling throughout England, earning a living writing reviews for various periodicals. He also grew a long beard, which became one of his distinguishing trademarks.

Lytton Strachey's Notable Works

When writing a research paper on Lytton Strachey, you will want to include some of his most notable published works. These include:

• In 1912, he published his first book, Landmarks in French Literature, albeit to disappointing sales.
• In 1918, he had retuned to London and was living with his mother when he published Eminent Victorians.
• Eminent Victorians was followed by his biography Queen Victoria in 1921.

In his personal life, Strachey was open regarding his homosexuality to his friends, even though it was criminal in Britain at the time. He had a long relationship with economist John Maynard Keynes, another member of the Bloomsbury Group. The painter Dora Carrington was in love with Strachey, and married Ralph Partridge in order to have a three-way relationship. Carrington committed suicide two months after Strachey's 1932 death.