Lamb, H. - Lytton Strachey, 1914 - art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title: Lytoon Strachey (1880-1932)
• Artist (if known):  H. Lamb, 1914
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Tate Gallery
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na
• Size: modern
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Stock No.:A291

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Giles Lytton Strachey ( /'d?a?lz 'l?t?n 'stre?t??/; 1 March 1880 � 21 January 1932) was a British 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 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.

Strachey was born on 1 March 1880, at Stowey House, Clapham Common, London, the fifth son and the eleventh child of Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey, an officer in the colonial British armed forces, and his second wife, the former Jane Grant, who became a leading supporter of the women's suffrage movement. He was named ""Giles Lytton"" after an early sixteenth-century Gyles Strachey and the first Earl of Lytton, who had been a friend of Richard Strachey's when he was Viceroy of India in the late 1870s. The Earl of Lytton was also Lytton Strachey's godfather.^[1] The Stracheys had thirteen children in total, ten of whom survived to adulthood, including Lytton's sister Dorothy Strachey.

When Lytton was four years old, the family moved from Stowey House to 69 Lancaster Gate, north of Kensington Gardens.^[2] This would be their home until Sir Richard Strachey retired twenty years later.^[3] Lady Strachey was an enthusiast for languages and literature, making her children perform their own plays and write verse from early ages. She thought that Lytton had potential to become a great artist so she decided that he would receive the best education possible in order to be ""enlightened"".^[4] By 1887 he had begun the study of French, a culture he would admire during his entire life.^[1]

Strachey was educated at a series of schools, beginning at Parkstone, Dorset. This was a small school with a wide range of after class activities, where Strachey would exceed the other students' acting skills, being particularly convincing when portraying female parts. He would even tell his mother how much he liked dressing as a woman in real life so as to confuse and entertain others.^[5] Lady Strachey decided on 1893 that her son should start a more serious education, sending him to the Abbotsholme School in Rocester, Derbyshire where students were required to do manual work on a daily basis. Strachey's fragile physique couldn't take it and after few months he was transferred to Leamington College, where he would be victim of savage bullying.^[1][6] Sir Richard was tired of his son's delicate personality, so he told him to ""grin and bear the petty bullying"".^[7] Strachey did eventually adapt to the school's life, becoming one of its best students. His health also seemed to improve during the three years he spent at Leamington, although various illnesses continued to plague him.^[8]

When in 1897 Strachey turned seventeen, Lady Strachey decided that her son was ready to leave school and go to university, but because she thought he was yet too young for Oxford she decided that he should first attend a smaller institution - the University of Liverpool. There Strachey befriended his Professor of Modern Literature, Walter Raleigh, who, besides being his favourite lecturer, also became the most influential figure in his life before he went up to Cambridge. In 1899 Strachey took the Christ Church scholarship examination, wanting to get into Balliol College, Oxford. The examiners determined that Strachey's academic achievements were not remarkable, plus they were struck by his ""shyness and nervousness"".^[9] They recommended Lincoln College as a more suitable institution for Strachey, advice that Lady Strachey took as an insult, deciding then that her son would attend Trinity College, Cambridge instead.^[10]

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