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Book Review By Jack Goodstein
Lytton Strachey: The Years of Achievement, 1910-1932 by Michael Holroyd

   This second volume of Holroyd's biography covers the period of Strachey's successful emergence as a biographer with the publication of "Eminent Victorians" and "Queen Victoria," his continued friendship with the members of the influential Bloomsbury group, especially Virginia Woolf, and his status as a conscientious objector in World War I. His financial success allowed him the freedom to travel and to set up housekeeping with Dora Carrington, a young painter who fell in love with him despite his homosexuality.   She even married his friend Ralph Partridge so that the three of them could live together in a triangular arrangement of sorts. It was she who cared for him for most of the rest of his life.


Plot & Themes
job/profession:
Job/profession/poverty story Yes
Period of greatest activity? - 1900+

Subject of Biography
Gender - Male
Profession/status:
Ethnicity - White
Nationality - British

Setting
How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 ()
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Century: - 1900-1920's

Writing Style
Book makes you feel? - thoughtful
Graphic sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - male homosexuality
If this is a kid's book: - Age 16-Adult
Pictures/Illustrations? - More 6-10 B&W
How much dialogue in bio? - little dialog
How much of bio focuses on most famous period of life? - 26-50% of book
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