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Lytton Strachey

1880 - 1932

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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 established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lytton Strachey has received more than 922,999 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Lytton Strachey is the 3,003rd most popular writer (up from 3,125th in 2019), the 2,190th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,326th in 2019) and the 250th most popular British Writer.

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  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

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  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lytton Strachey ranks 3,003 out of 7,302. Before him are Georges Schehadé, Arctinus of Miletus, John Cleland, Friedrich Wolf, John Perkins, and Richard Dehmel. After him are Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen, Roy Medvedev, Gasparo Contarini, Maithili Sharan Gupt, Vincent Voiture, and Lars Norén.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Lytton Strachey ranks 106. Before him are Fernand Feyaerts, Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Marie Stopes, Fritz Bleyl, Tudor Arghezi, and Frigyes Riesz. After him are Alfred J. Lotka, Mirza Kuchik Khan, B. C. Forbes, Hans Hofmann, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, and Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Among people deceased in 1932, Lytton Strachey ranks 68. Before him are Rudolf Bauer, Bipin Chandra Pal, Maximilian Voloshin, Paolo Boselli, Francisco S. Carvajal, and María Blanchard. After him are Emil Paur, Princess Karoline Mathilde of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, Julius Röntgen, Christian von Ehrenfels, Jalil Mammadguluzadeh, and Paul Neumann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Lytton Strachey ranks 2,190 out of 8,785. Before him are Wilfred Owen (1893), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (1967), Bernard Williams (1929), John Miles (1949), John Cleland (1709), and John Paul Jones (1747). After him are Bob Peck (1945), George Robert Waterhouse (1810), Sherburne Wesley Burnham (1838), Paul Young (1956), William Speirs Bruce (1867), and James Stirling (1692).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Lytton Strachey ranks 250. Before him are Thomas Otway (1652), Angela Carter (1940), Robert Burton (1577), Richard Baxter (1615), Wilfred Owen (1893), and John Cleland (1709). After him are Caroline Graham (1931), Michael Jackson (1942), Thor Vilhjálmsson (1925), Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), Alan Sillitoe (1928), and Hamnet Shakespeare (1585).

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