10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRACHEY»
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A Dictionary of Powhatan
This volume represents the largest vocabulary ever collected of Powhatan -- approximately 1,000 entries compiled by William Strachey around 1612.
When Lytton Strachey published Emininent Victorians, he took the general perception of the Victorian age among English-speaking readers and turned it upside-down.
Captures the awakening passions of an adolescent girl sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris, where she develops an infatuation for her headmistress.
Dorothy Bussy, Dorothy Strachey, 2006
We see Victoria as a strong-willed child with a famous temper, as the 18-year-old girl queen, as a monarch, wife, mother and widow.
Captures the awakening passions of an adolescent girl sent away for a year to a small finishing school outside Paris, where she develops an infatuation for her headmistress.
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Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
An inside look into the story behind one of the most famous and tortured romances in history
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Lytton
Strachey and the Search for Modern Sexual Identity: ...
Lytton Strachey, “The Two Triumphs,” a poem to Arthur Hobhouse, dated March
10, 1905, BM MSS ADD 60694. 80. Lytton Strachey to Walter Lamb, letter dated
March 23, 1907, BM MSS ADD 60675. 81. Lytton Strachey to Duncan Grant, letter
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Friends and Apostles: The Correspondence of Rupert Brooke ...
Letters between the two men reveal their thoughts on politics, literature, and homosexuality, as well as their observations of such collegues and friends as John Maynard Keynes, Virginia Woolf, and Betrand Russell.
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Bloomsbury/Freud: the letters of James and Alix
Strachey, ...
Chronicles the growth of their surprisingly modern marriage of equals as well as their separated but similar worlds of literature and bohemianism united by the burgeoning field of psychoanalysis
James Strachey, Alix Strachey, Perry Meisel, 1985
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Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the
Strachey Family
Examining Lytton Strachey, his parents and nine siblings, Caine provides a picture of a diverse and complex family. Originally published: 2005.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRACHEY»
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Life in Squares: The original rebels with a cause are back
Henrietta Bingham, the daughter of the US Ambassador to Britain, had lesbian flings with the painter (Dora) Carrington and the psychoanalyst Alix Strachey, ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
Camp correspondence: letters reveal George Mallory's flirtatious side
Strachey was knocked for six by Mallory on sight. “Mon Dieu! George Mallory!”, he wrote to Vanessa Bell, Virgina Woolf's sister, (in a previously published letter, ... «The Guardian, May 15»
The True Story of Rupert Brooke
At the prep school he attended from age eight to thirteen, he became close with James Strachey, the younger brother of the more famous Lytton Strachey, and ... «The New Yorker, Apr 15»
John Aubrey and our golden age of life writing
... of Dr Johnson (1791); the second by Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians (1912); the third by Michael Holroyd's Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (1967-8) ... «The Guardian, Feb 15»
Bloomsbury set laid bare in 'intimate' new BBC drama
He had also been present at Angelica's birth, and wrote to Lytton Strachey of the newborn: “I think of marrying it. When she is 20, I shall be 46 – will it be ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 15»
Stern fathers, religious zealots and prudes? How we got the …
Strachey saw many such alarming parent figures in the upper class world to which he and Russell belonged, and when they grew up and formed the friendship ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jan 15»
'Vanessa and Her Sister,' by Priya Parmar
Lytton Strachey thinks she's being too hard on herself. “Vanessa is an ocean of majestic calm even if she does not know it,” he writes in a letter to Leonard Woolf, ... «New York Times, Jan 15»
Lytton Strachey Explains What a Strange, Marvelous Creature the …
Here, Lytton Strachey—Boswell's heir to the biography throne—explains how "an idler, a lecher, a drunkard, and a snob," achieved "one of the most ... «The New Republic, Oct 14»
Remembering Mr. Creevey
When it first appeared in 1918, Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians was a bracing tonic: an antidote to the bloated hagiographies of nineteenth-century heroes ... «The New Republic, Apr 14»
What We're Reading: Lytton Strachey, a Kindle Binge, Modern …
I recently bought a copy of Lytton Strachey's “Eminent Victorians” at the ominously named Last Bookstore, in downtown Los Angeles. Last, but not first—the ... «New Yorker, Feb 14»
