Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey (March 1 1880–January 21 1932) was a British writer and critic. He is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.

Books

• Landmarks in French Literature (1912)
• Eminent Victorians: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Dr. Arnold, General Gordon (1918)
• Queen Victoria (1921)
• Books and Characters (1922)
• Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (1928)
• Portraits in Miniature and Other Essays (1931)
• Characters and Commentaries (ed. James Strachey, 1933)
• Spectatorial Essays (ed. James Strachey, 1964)
• Ermyntrude and Esmeralda (1969)
• Lytton Strachey by Himself: A Self Portrait (ed. Michael Holroyd, 1971)
• The Really Interesting Question and Other Papers (ed. Paul Levy, 1972)
• The Letters of Lytton Strachey (ed. Paul Levy, 2005) ISBN 0670891126