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English writer (1880–1932)

Also known as: Giles Lytton Strachey, Литтон Стрейчи, 리턴 스트레이치, リットン・ストレイチー, 李顿·斯特雷奇, Стрейчи, Литтон

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Her playful mock-biography Orlando and essayistic portraits share Strachey's ironic, impressionistic treatment of historical lives. (AI reason)
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Shares a wry, humane skepticism toward Victorian and Edwardian moral conventions. (AI reason)
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Harold Nicolson1886–1968
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Wrote urbane, ironic biographical studies in the 'new biography' mode Strachey pioneered. (AI reason)
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Produced epigrammatic, stylish historical portraits closely modeled on Strachey's manner. (AI reason)
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Offers elegant, satirical essays and caricatures puncturing Victorian pomposity. (AI reason)
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Edmund Gosse1849–1928
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Father and Son is a candid, ironic dissection of Victorian piety that anticipates Strachey's debunking. (AI reason)
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Samuel Butler1835–1902
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The Way of All Flesh satirizes Victorian family and religious hypocrisy in a vein Strachey's readers enjoy. (AI reason)
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Edward Gibbon1737–1794
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His ironic, polished historical prose is a direct stylistic ancestor of Strachey's. (AI reason)
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Writes witty, psychologically acute literary biography of Bloomsbury-era figures. (AI reason)
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