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'''Giles Lytton Strachey''' (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. | '''Giles Lytton Strachey''' (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. | ||
| − | A founder member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. | + | A founder member of the [[Bloomsbury Group]] and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. |
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Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic. A founder member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His 1921 biography Queen Victoria was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize.
