'Room of Their Own': Mills College Art Museum Nov 20, 2009
Their brother Thoby Stephen brought some of his former Cambridge University classmates into the circle, notably Duncan Grant and Lytton Strachey ... "For the most part, however, American awareness of Bloomsbury began after World War I and focused not on art but on the writings of Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf and John Maynard Keynes.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Robert Fisk on writing from World War I Nov 11, 2009
" He recalled Lytton Strachey before one of the conscientious objection tribunal's judges, a man whose words prefigured my father's own argument: "What," sternly asked one of the judges, "would you do Mr Strachey, if you discovered a German preparing to outrage your sister. " ... the "bloomsberries" all exempted themselves, in one way or another. Yet they had money and we hadn't ultimately it was to keep them fat and prosperous ... that other people were to risk their lives. Then there were the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
The Black Arts of Literary Biography Oct 30, 2009
Author of a magisterial four-volume life of George Bernard Shaw and two magisterial volumes on Lytton Strachey. Author of a magisterial book on the art and craft of biography. (The American Conservative)
'The Children's Book,' by A.S. Byatt Oct 26, 2009
Skittishly, it cast off the moral anguish and human responsibility of the Victoria sages Lytton Strachey was preparing to mock. They looked back. (San Francisco Chronicle)
ALCS Sponsors 'Anne Chisholm on Frances Partridge' at 60th Cheltenham Literary Festival Oct 15, 2009
"It's vital that we engage the widest possible audience with the issues of authors' rights and copyright and that we extend our geographic reach across the UK," says Barbara Hayes, ALCS' Deputy CEO. "Sponsoring high profile events such as this at literary festivals enables us to continue raising awareness of the importance of writers' rights to the wider literary community and the public who enjoy their work. We are of course particularly delighted to support the Cheltenham Festival as it... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
The diagnosis? Hypochondria Oct 15, 2009
As Lytton Strachey surmised in Eminent Victorians in 1918, Nightingale ''found the machinery of illness scarcely less effective as a barrier against the eyes of men than the ceremonial of a great palace. Marcel Proust: Author and critic. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Now what shall we get for Arnie? Oct 7, 2009
Lytton Strachey records as much in his book Queen Victoria. "Upon the interior decorations, Albert and Victoria lavished all their care. The wall and the floors were of pitch pine, and covered with specially manufactured tartans. The Balmoral Tartan, in red and grey, designed by the Prince, and the Victoria Tartan, with a white stripe, designed by the Queen, were to be seen in every room: there were tartan curtains and tartan chair covers and even tartan linoleums.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Historian Strachey delights in his research work for 'Brave Vessel' Jul 26, 2009
Among them was the aspiring writer William Strachey (ancestor of Lytton Strachey), whose account of the ordeal became widely, if briefly, popular. Strachey returned to London just as William Shakespeare s The Tempest was playing to wide acclaim. (Boston Globe)
interview with Joseph ONeill Jul 14, 2009
The Indian Clerk, an epic and elegant work which spans continents and decades, encompasses a World War, and boasts a cast of characters that includes Bertrand Russell, Ludwig Wittgenstein and Lytton Strachey. Leavitt renders the complex mathematics in a manner that resonates emotionally as well as intellectually, and writes with crystalline elegance. (Harper's Magazine)
Lions of Victorian theatre Jul 5, 2009
He has written at least three biographical masterpieces: of Lytton Strachey, George Bernard Shaw, and of himself and his parents. So Michael Holroyd must have found it tempting to tackle in A Strange Eventful History those most colorful deities of Victorian theater: the much-worshiped Ellen Terry and her formidable actor-manager, Sir Henry Irving, along with each one s two children. (Boston Globe)
