Lytton strachey biography
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Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography
Biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd
Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography is a 1967–68 two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, often seen as the author's magnum opus.
Lytton strachey biography
He published a revised version in 1994 with a revised subtitle, The New Biography.
Publication
Robert Lescher, vice president of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, contracted English biographer Michael Holroyd around 1961 to write a biography of Lytton Strachey.
Over the next six years, it became a two-volume release. Lescher helped Holroyd secure grant funding for his work from the Saxton and Bollingen Foundations. By the time the book was published, Lescher had left the position to become a literary agent.[1] Lytton Strachey's brother, James, gave Holroyd permission to use previously unpublished work.[2]
The Strachey biography's first of two volumes, The Unknown Years 1880–1910, was released in 1967.
The second vo