Strachey, Giles Lytton, 1880 - 1932 (biographer and critic)
Dates and places
1880-1932. Trinity College 1899.
Sphere of activity
Biographer and essayist
Relationships
Son of General Sir Richard and Lady Jane Strachey
Found in 194 Collections and/or Records:
Lytton Strachey with Saxon Sydney-Turner, 1922 - 1930
Snapshot of Lytton Strachey reclining on the stones of a beach with a grassy cliff behind him. He wears a hat and looks to the right. Next to him reclines Saxon Sydney-Turner, with his right hand raised behind his head and his left hand raised to his shoulder. He is looking towards the camera.
Lytton Strachey's photograph album, 1927 - 1929
This is part of a series of two albums, but the other was used by Frances Partridge for her own photographs and has been catalogued with them (FCP/7/2/10).
'Max Beerbohm on Lytton Strachey' by F. A. Simpson, 1970
Offprint from History Studies.
Passport photograph of Lytton Strachey, 1922 - 1930
Professional head and shoulders portrait of Lytton Strachey, wearing a dark woollen overcoat and tie.
Photographs, 1913 - 2004
Playreading Society Minute Book, 1907 - 1915
Ralph Partridge sitting with Lytton Strachey, 1930-12
Snapshot of Ralph Partridge sitting in the foreground, on the verandah of Ham Spray House. He looks down at his right hand. Lytton Strachey is not clearly visible: he sits in the background with his legs crossed, wearing a hat. His face is hidden by his own knee and Ralph Partridge's knee.
Ralph Partridge standing with Dora Carrington at Weymouth, Dorset, 1927-09 - 1927-10
Snapshot of Ralph Partridge standing to the left on a balcony overlooking the promenade at Weymouth. His right hand is held in front of him and he looks upwards to the right. Dora Carrington stands close by him, with her left hand resting on the balcony railing. She looks downwards to the right.
Rosamond Lehmann sitting with Frances Partridge, Lytton Strachey, Vivien John and Wogan Philipps, 1930-07
Snapshot of Rosamond Lehmann sitting to the left closest to the camera on the lawn of Ham Spray House. She sits on a rug or coat on the grass, with her arms crossed on her lap and her head turned away from the camera. According to a note in the album, Frances Partridge might be sitting on the grass with her head turned away from the camera. Vivien John's head is visible over the knee of a man reclining on the grass. In the distance, Lytton Strachey stands next to Wogan Philipps.
Sprott, Heard, Forster and Strachey, 1920 - 1930
W.J.H. [Jack] Sprott, Gerald Heard, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey, seated outside around a table at Ham Spray House. Sprott is holding a cat on his lap. Print, 14.1 x 8.5. Inscribed on back, by E.M. Forster, with names, place and date '192-'. (Sleeve 138)
Sprott, Heard, Forster and Strachey, 1920 - 1929
W.J.H. [Jack] Sprott, Gerald Heard, E.M. Forster and Lytton Strachey, seated outside around a table at Ham Spray House. Sprott is holding a cat on his lap. Print, 14.1 x 8.5. Inscribed on back, by E.M. Forster, with names, place and date 'Is It 20?'. (Sleeve 437)
Stephen Tomlin playing badminton with Reine Pitman, 1930
Snapshot of Stephen Tomlin standing with his left hand by his side and his badminton racquet held low in his right hand. Reine Pitman stands closest to the camera, holding her racquet in both hands. At the edge of the badminton court sits Lytton Strachey in a deckchair. Also at the edge of the court, Ralph Partridge sits on the grass, looking to the right. In the background is a fence with cottages and trees beyond.
Strachey, G. Lytton, 1909-09-19
1 autograph letter, signed, with typescript transcript.
Strachey, L.: Correspondence with the Press, 1924 - 1932
Surnames M-Z, 1905 - 1931
Three figures sitting in a rocky landscape, 1922 - 1930
Faded snapshot of a woman and two men sitting on rocks in the open air. One man might be Lytton Strachey, the woman might be Virginia Woolf (according to Frances Partridge's index both appear in photographs on page 5 of this album).
Two men and three women standing near a tree, 1922 - 1930
In her index, Frances Partridge identifies one of these men as Lytton Strachey.
Two women and three men sitting in a garden, 1930
Shapshot of distant figures sitting in deckchairs or on the grass in front of a lattice fence with cottages behind. This might be the same badminton game as, for example, FCP/7/4/2/125. If so, the figures might be Frances Partridge, Reine Pitman, Stephen Tomlin and Lytton Strachey.
View of a man sitting by a river, 1927-09 - 1927-10
Snapshot of a man sitting on a river bank, with water in the foreground and trees in the background. His head is partially cut off from the photograph, but judging by the clothes and beard, it might be Lytton Strachey.