Strachey

[ strey-chee ]

noun

1. (Giles) Lyt·ton [jahylz , lit, -n], 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.

Strachey

/ ˈstreɪtʃɪ /

noun

1. Strachey(Giles) Lytton18801932MEnglishWRITING: biographerWRITING: critic ( Giles ) Lytton . 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, best known for Eminent Victorians (1918) and Queen Victoria (1921)

Example Sentences

In a 1973 essay in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick lamented the overexposure of its most prominent members — the “exhaustion” of Virginia Woolf and “the draining” of the writer Lytton Strachey.

From New York Times

The British observer William Strachey, for example, reported in 1612: “The doggs of the Country are like their woulves, and cannot barke but howle.”

From Washington Post

Nino Strachey, a curator and cultural historian, is descended from an illustrious family of intellectuals, civil servants and politicians who trace roots back to the 1600s.

From Washington Post

One Strachey scion played cricket for Magdalen College “wearing a large French peasant’s hat adorned with trailing pink ribbons.”

From Washington Post

Their niece Julia Strachey — a novelist, model and photographer whom the author describes with particular empathy and subtlety — was among the Young Bloomsbury talents.

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