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Lytton Strachey : the new biography, Michael Holroyd

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Summary
  • 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 alive; much could not be said, and access to letters and resources was restricted. Since then, almost all his circle has died, and homosexuality in England has been decriminalized
  • In telling Strachey's life anew, Holroyd has drawn on a wealth of previously unavailable material, bring fresh candor and accuracy to his account of Strachey's friendships with E. M. Forster, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, Ralph and Frances Patridge, and his companion Dora Carrington, among others. In many of Bloomsbury's three-cornered relationships, Holroyd could lay claim to only two sides of the triangle. Now he has all three with which to recount the story of this extraordinary man and his complex world. At the center of the drama is the long-lasting relationship between Strachey and Carrington and their "Triangular Trinity of Happiness" with Ralph Partridge. In equally elegant and humorous prose, Holroyd shows the parts that many men and women played in this comedy of manners as it developed into a tragedy
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
1st American ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 779 pages
Contents
  • Lancaster Gate
  • 'Funny little creature'
  • Liverpool
  • Fratribus
  • Beetles and water-spiders
  • Post-graduate
  • Intentions
  • The wrong turning
  • The changing past
  • Town versus the country
  • The lacket
  • War and peace
  • Tidmarsh
  • A life apart
  • Eminent Edwardian
  • Ham spray house
  • Another world
Link
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780374524654
Instance
Label
Lytton Strachey : the new biography
Title
Lytton Strachey
Title remainder
the new biography
Statement of responsibility
Michael Holroyd
Creator
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
  • 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 alive; much could not be said, and access to letters and resources was restricted. Since then, almost all his circle has died, and homosexuality in England has been decriminalized
  • In telling Strachey's life anew, Holroyd has drawn on a wealth of previously unavailable material, bring fresh candor and accuracy to his account of Strachey's friendships with E. M. Forster, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell, Ralph and Frances Patridge, and his companion Dora Carrington, among others. In many of Bloomsbury's three-cornered relationships, Holroyd could lay claim to only two sides of the triangle. Now he has all three with which to recount the story of this extraordinary man and his complex world. At the center of the drama is the long-lasting relationship between Strachey and Carrington and their "Triangular Trinity of Happiness" with Ralph Partridge. In equally elegant and humorous prose, Holroyd shows the parts that many men and women played in this comedy of manners as it developed into a tragedy
Biography type
individual biography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
Holroyd, Michael
Dewey number
  • 828/.91209
  • B
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR6037.T73
LC item number
Z693 1995
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
  • dictionaries
  • bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Strachey, Lytton
  • Authors, English
  • Biographers
  • Critics
  • Strachey, Lytton
  • Carrington, Dora de Houghton
  • Biographie
Label
Lytton Strachey : the new biography, Michael Holroyd
Link
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780374524654
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 706-750) and index
Contents
Lancaster Gate -- 'Funny little creature' -- Liverpool -- Fratribus -- Beetles and water-spiders -- Post-graduate -- Intentions -- The wrong turning -- The changing past -- Town versus the country -- The lacket -- War and peace -- Tidmarsh -- A life apart -- Eminent Edwardian -- Ham spray house -- Another world
Edition
1st American ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 779 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations (some color))
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035694678
Label
Lytton Strachey : the new biography, Michael Holroyd
Link
https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780374524654
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 706-750) and index
Contents
Lancaster Gate -- 'Funny little creature' -- Liverpool -- Fratribus -- Beetles and water-spiders -- Post-graduate -- Intentions -- The wrong turning -- The changing past -- Town versus the country -- The lacket -- War and peace -- Tidmarsh -- A life apart -- Eminent Edwardian -- Ham spray house -- Another world
Edition
1st American ed.
Extent
1 online resource (xxxv, 779 pages
Form of item
online
Other physical details
illustrations (some color))
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(OCoLC)1035694678

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