Giles Lytton Strachey

Born 1880 · Died 1932

From London, England, United Kingdom · Nationality: United Kingdom · Writes nonfiction

Quotes

“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.”
Eminent Victorians
“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.”
Eminent Victorians
“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our more complicated interests, our more elusive moods, their small bright world is apt to seem uninteresting and out of date, unless we spend some patient sympathy in the discovery of the real charm and the real beauty that it contains.”
Chapter 4

Books by Giles Lytton Strachey in the order they were published, from Ely (1902) to Eminent Victorians Illustrated (2022).