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Lytton Strachey
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Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic (d. 1932)
Giles Lytton Strachey (; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic.

A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

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