Strachey, Lytton
Strachey, Lytton ( Giles Lytton Strachey ) ( 1880 – 1932 ),biographer and essayist, born in London; he was the 11th child of an eminent soldier and public administrator who had served for more than 30 years in India, and he was named after his godfather, the first earl of Lytton , viceroy of India. After an unhappy and sickly childhood and a miserable year at Liverpool University, he found intellectual stimulus and liberation at Trinity College, Cambridge; he became a member of the Apostles and a friend of G. E. Moore , J. M. Keynes and L. Woolf . He was thereafter a prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group , advocating both in words and life its faith in tolerance in personal relationships: he spent the last 16 years of his life in a ménage à trois with Dora Carrington and her husband Ralph Partridge . He was also, in the First World War, a conspicuous conscientious objector. After an...
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