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Jonathan Pryce as Strachey, Steven Waddington as Ralph Partridge and Emma Thompson as Dora Carrington in the film Carrington. Strachey was portrayed by Jonathan Pryce in the film Carrington (1995), [28] which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year, while Pryce won Best Actor for his performance.
Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three men and a woman who had, until then, been regarded as heroes: Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold and General Charles Gordon.
- Lytton Strachey
- 1918
May 18, 2018 · Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era. Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880. He was the eleventh of thirteen children of an upper-middle-class family.
Eminent Victorians, collection of short biographical sketches by Lytton Strachey, published in 1918. Strachey’s portraits of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Charles “Chinese” Gordon revolutionized English biography. Until Strachey, biographers had kept an.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Lytton Strachey (born March 1, 1880, London—died Jan. 21, 1932, Ham Spray House, near Hungerford, Berkshire, Eng.) was an English biographer and critic who opened a new era of biographical writing at the close of World War I. Adopting an irreverent attitude to the past and especially to the monumental life-and-letters volumes of Victorian ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Sudan was occupied, and as Strachey mentions in his biography of General Gordon, Lord Kitchener’s army inflicted great slaughter on the Sudanese army in 1898. The Boer War (1899–1902)...
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Jan 30, 2018 · Strachey (1880-1932) believed that biography was an art, one that required focus, compression and shading, what he called "a becoming brevity," as well as an appealing style and a...
