First edition. Holroyd, while working on his two-volume biography of Strachey, collected all Strachey's diaries and memoirs, which together in the volume form an autobiography of sorts. These include two autobiographical essays published for the first time. Book and dust jacket are a bit worn. Previous owner's bookplate on the front endpaper and another owners bookplate is loosely laid-in. vi, ii , 184 pages. cloth. 8vo..

Lytton Strachey by himself;: A self-portrait

Strachey,Lytton

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

Eminent Victorians

History

Europe

Penguin??Books

A genre-changing work of biography Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked. In it, Strachey cleverly exposes the self-seeking ambitions of Cardinal Manning and the manipulative, neurotic Florence Nightingale; and in his essays on Dr Arnold and General Gordon, his quarries are not only his subjects but also the public-school system and the whole structure of nineteenth-century liberal values. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Eminent Victorians (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Penguin Classics

A biography of the British queen covers her childhood, relations with other heads of state, devotion to Prince Albert, and the psychological influences on her character

Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Leaders & Notable People

Penguin Group USA

Lytton Strachey’s captivating portrait of Queen Victoria is considered a masterpiece of the biographer’s art.

Queen Victoria

Penguin Uk

This study of the childhood, marriage, and reign of England's beloved queen reveals a tender but determined woman

Queen Victoria (H B J MODERN CLASSIC)

Harcourt

This is the definitive biography of Britain’s greatest monarch, who “was hailed at once as the mother of her people and as the embodied symbol of their imperial greatness.” “One of the surpassingly beautiful prose achievements of our time” (Chicago Daily News). Index; illustrations.

Community & Culture

Mariner Books

One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes, Strachey portrays the Queen's and the Earl's compelling attraction for on another, their impassioned disagreements, and their mutual contest for power, which led to a final, tragic confrontation. Here we also have superb portraits of influential people of the time: Francis Bacon, Robert Cecil, Walter Raleigh, and other figures of the court who struggled to assert themselves in a kingdom that was primarily defined by her sovereign, and so now seen through history's lens as Elizabethan England.

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Few books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of biography.

Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold

Arts & Literature

Thirty-five sketches, including pieces on Voltaire, Frederick the Great, Rousseau, Gibbon, Walpole, Boswell, Carlyle, and Sarah Bernhardt, by one of the great biographical writers of this century. Companion volume to Strachey's Literary Essays. Index.

Biographical Essays

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Lytton Strachey by himself;: A self-portrait

Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin)

Queen Victoria (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)

Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria (H B J MODERN CLASSIC)

Queen Victoria

Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale, General Gordon, Cardinal Manning, Dr. Arnold

Biographical Essays