'I collected my thoughts. My ideas about prison came from American films, and I envisaged cells of which one side would be made of iron bars, all giving on to a landing, like a zoo [...] I tried to read the book I had brought with me, a pocket edition of Lytton Strachey's "Elizabeth and Essex". It was not an ideal choice but I had snatched it up as I left my room.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Diana Mosley Print: Book
23 July 1918: 'Jack Hills & Pippa dined here [...] To my surprise [...] he knows about Georgian
poetry, & has read Lytton's book, & condemns the Victorians.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: John Waller Hills Print: Book
Sunday 25 November 1928: 'I took Essex & Eth (Lytton's) down [to Rodmell] to read, & Lord forgive me! -- find it a poor book. I have not finished it, and am keeping it to see if my [text ends]'.
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Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Virginia Woolf
'I doubt if you ought to call France & Flaubert "dry". "L’Education Sentimentale" ought to be read with ease. Ditto "Thais", & "La Rotisserie". Personally, though, I think France over-rated. You ought to read "Bubu de Montparnasse" of Charles Louis Philippe. This is a great little novel, one of the finest modern French novels. I think "Coeur simple" is the best thing Flaubert ever wrote, except his correspondence, which is his best work, & ought to be read. I tell you that Lytton Strachey’s "Eminent Victorians" is a most juicy & devastating affair, I thoroughly enjoyed it.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Arnold Bennett Print: Book
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914:
'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Giles Lytton Strachey Manuscript: Unknown
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 27 October 1916:
'I return the MS which I thought amazingly good. It made me laugh until I cried twice, once at "where he remained for the next thirty-six hours" and once at the painful mystery of the animal world.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Leonard Woolf Manuscript: Unknown
'It was delicious to sit outside my tent writing to you. The inhabitants of the village showed perfect manners and left me in peace; not so the sheep who kept bunting into the tent and sniffing at all it contained. Towards sunset the cows brought themselves home and the bare hills revealed their glorious structure in blue shadow and golden slope — oh dear, I'm being like Queen Victoria! do you remember the perfect passage quoted by Strachy [sic]? "Darling Albert said that the reason why mountain scenery is so beautiful is because it is constantly changing." We got home at 6.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Gertrude Bell Print: Book
