Lytton Strachey
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Giles Lytton Strachey (Template:Pron-en; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 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. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
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Academic and biographies
- 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)
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Posthumous publications
- 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) (ISBN 978-0-349-11812-3)
- The Really Interesting Question and Other Papers (ed. Paul Levy, 1972)
- The Shorter Strachey (ed. Michael Holroyd and Paul Levy, 1980)
- The Letters of Lytton Strachey (ed. Paul Levy, 2005) (ISBN 0-670-89112-6)
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