Sickly, eccentric, acerbic and homosexual, Strachey is taken with Carrington at first sight--he thinks the androgynous girl is a boy. She falls in love with him at an equally odd moment: about to clip ...

Richard Eder, former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. OUR image of Bloomsbury, casual and perhaps fading by now, is of a Neverland where a self-selected ...

LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $21.95. We are the mysterious priests of a new and amazing civilization. We are greater than our fathers; we are ...

Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week. I recently bought a copy of Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” at the ominously named Last Bookstore, in downtown Los ...

This is Queen Victoria’s eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max’s brisk, elegiac tribute ...

Woolf was relieved to receive the following praise by Lytton Strachey for her first novel, The Voyage Out: “At the end I felt as if it was really only the beginning of an enormous novel, which had ...

Lytton Strachey picked his moment to make sport of Thomas Arnold and other Victorians. Tate Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY Lytton Strachey made up the business about Thomas Arnold having short ...

It would be difficult to find a more shattering refutation of the lessons of cheap morality than the life of James Boswell. One of the most extraordinary successes in the history of civilization was ...