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Lytton Strachey
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, English biographer, was born in 1880. He was an openly gay member of the artistically talented Bloomsbury Group, centering on Leonard and Virginia Woolf. (Strachey had once proposed to Virginia née Stephen, but she laughed. When he was conscripted in World War I, he declared himself to be a pacif ....
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....man beings rather than idols, and by informing public knowledge with private information, Strachey ushered in a new era of biography.
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian -- ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
Strachey, Giles Lytton (1880-1932), English essayist and biographer; a profound analyst who clothed his thoughts in brilliant style; set new standard of biography, in which,.... |
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