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Lytton Strachey
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24 January 1918: 'To the Club, where I found Lytton by himself, & not feeling inclined for talk we read our papers near together.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey Print: Newspaper
Vittorio Alfieri : unknown
Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; "[italics]extremely[end italics] good" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey Print: Book
Virginia Woolf : The Voyage Out
Wednesday 15 September 1920: 'Blessed with fine weather, I could look from my window, through the vine leaves, & see Lytton sitting in the deck chair reading Alfieri from a lovely vellum copy, dutifully looking out words. He wore a white felt hat, & the usual grey clothes; was long, & tapering as usual; looking so mild & so ironical, his beard just cut short [...] For my own encouragement, I may note that he praised the Voyage Out voluntarily; "[italics]extremely[end italics] good" it seemed to him on re-reading, especially the satire of the Dalloways.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey Print: Book
anon : advertisement/announcement on racing
15 February 1922: 'I thought to myself, as Lytton was talking, Now I will remember this & write it down in my diary tomorrow [...] "Latest Racine" he had read on the posters at Waterloo; thought it referred to Masefield; then re-read Racing.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey Print: Poster
Hester Lynch Piozzi (Thrale) : Anecdotes of the Late Doctor Johnson
Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [...] I told Lytton I should try to write down his talk -- which sprang from a conversation about Boswell [...] Lytton had of course read Mrs Thrale [...] One night he gave us a complete account of the prison system, based on reports which he has been reading -- thoroughly, with mastery, & a kind of political ability which impresses me.'
Century: 1850-1899 / 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey Print: Book
Stephen Hobhouse and A. Fenner Brockway, eds : English Prisons Today. Being the Report of the Prison System Enquiry Committee
Tuesday 12 September: 'Lytton drove off an hour ago; I have been sitting here, unable to read or collect myself -- such is the wreckage dealt by 4 days of conversation [...] I told Lytton I should try to write down his talk -- which sprang from a conversation about Boswell [...] Lytton had of course read Mrs Thrale [...] One night he gave us a complete account of the prison system, based on reports which he has been reading -- thoroughly, with mastery, & a kind of political ability which impresses me.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey Print: Book
Honore de Balzac : Le Pere Goriot
Leonard Woolf to Lytton Strachey, 8 April 1902: 'I was glad to hear you had really read it [Le Pere Goriot] & I agree with you -- in the main -- about it. Of course personally I never or try never to compare it with Lear because though it challenges comparison all through on the face of it, I don't really think it is fair to do so.'
Century: 1900-1945 Reader/Listener/Group: Lytton Strachey Print: Book
Lytton Strachey : Life of Cardinal Manning
Leonard Woolf to Virginia Woolf, 13 March 1914: 'Lytton read me last night what he had written about Manning. It's very good & amusing.'
