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He has cut 100, 000 words, revised much of the text and added a wealth of new material, about Strachey himself, about Maynard Keynes, Duncan Grant, Rupert Brooke and most vividly about the tragic life of Strachey’s companion Dora Carrington.’Įminent Victorians by Lytton Strachey Groundbreaking and a huge success at time of publication, making Strachey a household name, according to Nino this irreverent biography is still well worth a read today: ‘ Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper lip were debunked.
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Now he has all three, and in a new social and political climate can tell the full story of this extraordinary world with candour, sympathy and sexual explicitness. In many of Bloomsbury’s three-cornered relationships, he had only two sides of the triangle. For this re-telling of his story Holroyd has had access to published and unpublished material unavailable in the 1960s when his biography of Strachey first appeared. He revolutionised the writing of biography and smuggled deviant sexual behaviour into our history in his reassessment of Elizabethan and Victorian times. Now he appears as a far more subversive and challenging figure. In the 1960s he was seen as a progenitor of the hippy cult. More recently Holroyd produced this revised, shorter version with new material that had been unavailable at the time of writing his original work: ‘Lytton Strachey … was at the nexus of the literary and artistic life of Bloomsbury. Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd (Penguin) Nino recommends Michael Holroyd’s classic biography of her relative, noting that when the book was first published in 1967 it was groundbreaking in its frankness about Strachey’s private life (the law around homosexuality had only just been changed). Revealing an aspect of Bloomsbury history not yet explored, Young Bloomsbury celebrates an open way of living that would not be embraced for another hundred years.’Įnjoyed the episode? Click here to jump to the comments and let us know your thoughts, in particular any books you would recommend, we love to hear from you. But as transgressive self-expression became more public, this younger generation gave Old Bloomsbury a new voice.
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Talented and productive, these larger-than-life figures had high-achieving professional lives and extremely complicated emotional lives.īloomsbury had always celebrated sexual equality and freedom in private, feeling that every person had the right to live and love in the way they chose.
Young Bloomsbury introduces us to an extraordinarily colourful cast of characters, including novelist and music critic Eddy Sackville-West, ‘who wore elaborate make-up and dressed in satin and black velvet’ sculptor Stephen Tomlin and writer Julia Strachey. ‘In the 1920s a new generation stepped forward to invigorate the Bloomsbury Group – creative young people who tantalised the original ‘Bloomsberries’ with their captivating looks and provocative ideas. Undaunted by the ghosts of her relatives Nino Strachey, author of a new book, Young Bloomsbury, joins us to discuss the up-and-coming younger generation, such as writer Julia Strachey, sculptor Stephen Tomlin and photographer Cecil Beaton, who followed in their footsteps. Step back in time with us as Kate visits Charleston home of Vanessa Bell and important gathering place for the members of the Bloomsbury Group, that collection of writers and artists including Virginia Woolf that coalesced around Gordon Square in London.
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