Happy 90th birthday to Michael Holroyd, whose mega-biog of Lytton Strachey contains everything ever thought by any person, anywhere, at all, about LyttonStrachey.

🎨 Dora Carrington’s Portrait of Lytton Strachey (1916) captures an extraordinary bond between artist & writer.

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"Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake."

✒ #LyttonStrachey, English writer, biographer, and critic, was #BOTD 1 March 1880.

English writer, notorious homosexual and Bloomsbury Group fag bangle Lytton Strachey was BOTD in 1880. #lyttonstrachey #supergays #bornonthisday

If you know who Lytton Strachey is, This is the funniest post on this website today. #lyttonstrachey #lyttoneraryheads #StracheySky #FlorenceNightingaleCatchingTheseStracheys

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it." [Last words]

✒ [Giles] #LyttonStrachey, English biographer and critic, #DOTD 21 January 1932, aged 51. #Literature

"Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake."

✒ #LyttonStrachey, English writer, biographer, and critic, was #BOTD 1 March 1880.

"If this is dying, I don't think much of it." [Last words]

✒ [Giles] #LyttonStrachey, English biographer and critic, #DOTD 21 January 1932, aged 51. #Literature

Lytton Strachey was born on this day in 1880.

Portrait by Dora Carrington, 1916

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