MICHAEL HOLROYD’S two-volume Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, $21.95) runs to almost 1200 large pages and well beyond half a million words. A performance so ...

Sickly, eccentric, acerbic and homosexual, Strachey is taken with Carrington at first sight--he thinks the androgynous girl is a boy. She falls in love with him at an equally odd moment: about to clip ...

London — IF the cellphone had been invented in Lytton Strachey’s time, he would’ve had it plastered to his ear. One can just imagine the highly social writer, a hard-core member of the famous ...

Richard Eder, former book critic for The Times, was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for criticism in 1987. OUR image of Bloomsbury, casual and perhaps fading by now, is of a Neverland where a self-selected ...

LYTTON STRACHEY by Michael Holroyd. Two volumes, 1,229 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $21.95. We are the mysterious priests of a new and amazing civilization. We are greater than our fathers; we are ...

Notes from the New Yorker staff on their literary engagements of the week. I recently bought a copy of Lytton Strachey’s “Eminent Victorians” at the ominously named Last Bookstore, in downtown Los ...

This is Queen Victoria’s eminent biographer caught in the act of composition by his great friend. Sir Max Beerbohm, caricaturist, author, wit and dandy. Last week Sir Max’s brisk, elegiac tribute ...

Lytton Strachey picked his moment to make sport of Thomas Arnold and other Victorians. Tate Gallery, London / Art Resource, NY Lytton Strachey made up the business about Thomas Arnold having short ...