Camp Mandarin: The Prose Style of Lytton Strachey.

Dr. Arnold. Strachey, Lytton. 1918. Eminent Victorians. as a schoolboy, a certain pompousness in the style of his letters home suggested to the more clear-sighted among his relatives the possibility that young Thomas might. The reading of the school was devoted almost entirely to selected passages from the prose writers of antiquity.

Lytton Strachey's biographical essays on four 'eminent Victorians' dropped a depth-charge on Victorian England when the book was published in 1918. It ushered in the modern biography and raised the genre to the level of high literary art.

This Study Guide consists of approximately 62 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Eminent Victorians. In Eminent Victorians (1918), Lytton Strachey examined the lives of four famous English individuals from the.

It goes on to outline the elements of a lucid, varied, pointed prose style; to warn of perils to be avoided (the book is an anthology of weeds as well as flowers); and to explore different methods of planning, composition and revision. Passages quoted for analysis are in a range of styles, taken from letters, essays, criticism, biography, history, novels and plays.

This site cotains the origional text and the urdu translationlish of the contents included in the syllabus of M.A English Literature.It also includes notes, essays, lectures and a lot. Prose - The English Literature.

Equally informative are his own autobiographies, particularly Beginning Again and Downhill All the Way (1967), and The Letters of Virginia Woolf and Lytton Strachey. Virginia Woolf's Granite and Rainbow contains 27 essays on the art of fiction and biography.

Eminent Victorians Lytton Strachey. Published in 1918, Eminent Victorians is a collection of four biographies of prominent heroes at the time of the author, Lytton Strachey.The biographies include those of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.

This essay identifies how the Stracheys informed Woolf's views of late Victorian and modern women's creative and political autonomy and how she responded to them in turn. I argue that the Strachey women were Woolf's principal feminist interlocutors. Woolf brought their arguments into her imaginative and critical prose, published some of their.

Biographer Michael Holroyd was born in 1935 and was educated at Eton College. His first book was a biography of the writer Hugh Kingsmill, published in 1964. The publication in 1967 and 1968 of his biography of Lytton Strachey was hailed as a landmark in contemporary biography and, six years later, his biography of the painter Augustus John confirmed his place as one of the most influential.

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Giles Lytton Strachey was born in 1880, the eleventh of thirteen children, to General Sir Richard Strachey and his wife Jane Grant. Though he spent some years at boarding schools, including Abbotsholme and Leamington College, he received much of his education at home.

Lytton Strachey. The son of a soldier administrator in the Colonial Service, Strachey went to Trinity College, Cambridge in 1899. While at Cambridge, Strachey joined the ranks of the 'Apostles', a select group including Roger Fry, Maynard Keynes and E.M. Forster.