WRITER

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 897,782 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Lytton Strachey is the 3,002nd most popular writer (up from 3,125th in 2019), the 2,189th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,326th in 2019) and the 250th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 900k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.97

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Books and characters
Accessible book, Authors, English, Authors, French
1922
Elizabeth and Essex
Biography, Court and courtiers, Essex, Robert Devereux, earl of, 1566-1601
1928
Landmarks in French literature
French literature, History and criticism, Accessible book
1912
Queen Victoria
Kings and rulers, Biography, History
“A fascinating presentation of the Queen and her time, keen characterizations of Lord Melbourne, Palmerston, Gladstone, and Disraeli, and an impressive and convincing portrait of the Prince Consort. Done with the frankness and subtlety of a great artist.” — A.L.A. Catalog 1926 “In the long. amazing career which we follow we are ever conscious of the Queen as a woman, of the social and political atmosphere of the changes she lived through, and of her relation to those changes as head of the State. The career of the Queen falls into five periods — the Melbourne period, her married years, the years of seclusion and unpopularity which followed the death of the Prince Consort, her emergence under the influence of Disraeli, and finally her apotheosis in old age as the mother of her people and the symbol of their imperial greatness.” “Mr Strachey has the advantage of dealing with real people, instead of with characters laboriously abstracted from life in general, and his book is more fascinating an compelling than most novels.” – The Book Review Digest
1921
Eminent Victorians
Biography, History, Nurses
“Discretion is not the better part of biography,” Lytton warns us, and it is with this motto that he paints his portraits of Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold, Florence Nightingale, and General Gordon. The caricatures – which represent the world of religion, philanthropy, education, and politics – expose the high Victorian myths, and reveal a slightly darker truth about the leading figures of the era.Some say that he led the world into the next generation, but that claim is essentially over inflated. What can be said is that the line between fiction and non-fiction was blurred. A new genre was born: literary biography.
1910
Pope
Criticism and interpretation, English Verse satire, History and criticism
1925

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lytton Strachey ranks 3,002 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 2,189 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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