OverviewAI-generated
Lytton Strachey was a British male author born on March 1, 1880, and died on January 21, 1932. He is identified as a person from the United Kingdom. His literary output includes forty-nine works according to Open Library records, with notable titles such as *Eminent Victorians By Lytton Strachey with Four Portraits*, *EMINENT VICTORIAN*, *Elisabeth Und Essex*, *Books and Characters French & English*, and *Simple Story*.
Other databases record varying counts of his works, including five works via Crossref and two via Europeana Sparql. Strachey is referenced by 282 other encyclopedia articles. A quote attributed to him on Wikiquote reads, "If this is dying, then I don't think much of it."
Synthesized by Vinony from 17 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Europeana Sparql, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 49
Top works
- Eminent Victorians By Lytton Strachey with Four Portraits
- EMINENT VICTORIAN
- Elisabeth Und Essex
- Books and Characters French & English
- Simple Story
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1894-09-25
- Active to
- 1972-05-27
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 2
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Lytton+Strachey">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Cloning and characterization of an extracellular Ca2+-sensing receptor from bovine parathyroid
· 1993 · cited 2,162x
- Oligonucleotide-Modified Gold Nanoparticles for Intracellular Gene Regulation
· 2006 · cited 1,817x
- DNA-programmable nanoparticle crystallization
· 2008 · cited 1,466x
- Molecularly self-assembled nucleic acid nanoparticles for targeted in vivo siRNA delivery
· 2012 · cited 1,107x
- Maximizing DNA Loading on a Range of Gold Nanoparticle Sizes
· 2006 · cited 1,103x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “... Voltaire ...The great potentate of the eighteenth century has suffered cruelly indeed at the hands of posterity. Everyone, it is true, has heard of him; but who has read him? It is by his name that ye shall know him, and not by his works. With the exception of his letters, of Candide, of , and a few other of his shorter pieces, the vast mass of his productions has been already consigned to oblivion.”
- “To us, with our broader outlook, our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.”
- “[His reply to the chairman's other stock question, which had previously never failed to embarrass the claimant: "Tell me, Mr. Strachey, what would you do if you saw a German soldier trying to violate your sister?" With an air of noble virtue:] "I would try to get between them."”
- “If this is dying, then I don't think much of it.”
- “The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.”
- “The art of biography seems to have fallen on evil times in England. … With us, the most delicate and humane of all the branches of the art of writing has been relegated to the journeymen of letters; we do not reflect that it is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Giles Lytton Strachey , ( 1880-03-01 ) 1 March 1880, London , England
- Died
- 21 January 1932 (1932-01-21) (aged 51), Ham , Wiltshire , England
- Occupation
- Author, critic
- Alma mater
- University of Liverpool Trinity College, Cambridge
- Parents
- Sir Richard Strachey , Jane Grant
via Wikipedia infobox
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Lytton Strachey, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
~17 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
Early life and education
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lytton Strachey” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.