Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. —Preface Lytton
Lytton Strachey (Giles Lytton Strachey), 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, educated at Cambridge. He was one of the leading members of the Bloomsbury group . Strachey is credited with having revolutionized the art of writing biography. In reaction to the copious dull scholarship and the lengthy panegyrics of the 19th cent., he determined to write biographies that were swift, selective, critical, witty, and artistic.—Continue at Columbia Encyclopedia Pronunciation: str from The American Heritage®
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Eminent Victorians
Innovating the application of psychological principles to history, Strachey presents four artful biographies, or “Victorian visions.”
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