Lytton Strachey

Lytton Strachey was born in 1880, was elected to the Apostles society at Cambridge and became one of the central figures of the Bloomsbury group. In 1916 he asked to be recognised as a conscientious objector, appeared before a tribunal, and was declared unfit after a medical examination. From 1917 he lived with the painter Dora Carrington, later joined by Ralph Partridge, whom she married in 1921; the three shared his house until his death. He went on to write other biographies, of monarchs among others, and died of stomach cancer in 1932.

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• EssayEminent VictoriansLytton Strachey · 1918Literature