Books with author Giles Lytton Strachey

'Queen Victoria', the famous biography by Lytton Strachey. Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.

Lytton Strachey's first great success, and his most famous achievement, was "Eminent Victorians" (1918), a collection of four short biographies of Victorian heroes. With a dry wit, he exposed the human failings of his subjects and what he saw as the hypocrisy at the centre of Victorian morality. This work was followed in the same style by "Queen Victoria" (1921). Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

'Queen Victoria', the famous biography by Lytton Strachey. Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. Her reign of 63 years and seven months is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom, and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.

Lytton Strachey, as all readers of Eminent Victorians know, belongs with Taine and Macaulay in that small class of historians who are also artists. In the vivid and beautiful pages of "Queen Victoria" one sees the Eighteenth Century of England with its cynicism, elegance and philosophy fade out into the dreary respectability and moral timidity of the Nineteenth. And one sees it from the standpoint of one of the chief actors, a forceful and unintelligent German woman who uncomprehendingly presides over wars and political changes and gives her name to an era whose great movements mean nothing to her. For anything as fine as the historic irony of this book one must to go Renan. Originally published in 1921, "Queen Victoria" created a new and insistent appetite for a new and strangely delightful literary experience, for excepting Anatole France it is likely there was no living writer whose public was so avid and insatiable as Lytton Strachey's.

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Lytton Strachey was a British author and critic. On top of writing widely read books such as Eminent Victorians and his biography on Queen Victoria, Strachey is also famous for being one of the founding members of the Bloomsbury Group. Strachey's biography on Queen Victoria was so popular that it earned him the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1921.

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This Prince was clever enough to get round the Regent, to impress the Ministers, and to make friends with another of the Princess's uncles, the Duke of Kent. Through the Duke he was able to communicate privately with the Princess, who now declared that he was necessary to her happiness. When, after Waterloo, he was in Paris, the Duke's aide-de-camp carried letters backwards and forwards across the Channel. In January 1816 he was invited to England, and in May the marriage took place.[2] The character of Prince Leopold contrasted strangely with that of his wife.