Strachey

American  

[strey-chee] / ˈstreɪ tʃi /

noun

1. (Giles) Lytton 1880–1932, English biographer and literary critic.

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Strachey British  

/ ˈstreɪtʃɪ /

noun

1. ( Giles ) Lytton . 1880–1932, English biographer and critic, best known for Eminent Victorians (1918) and Queen Victoria (1921)

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Example Sentences

In a 1973 essay in The New York Review of Books, Elizabeth Hardwick lamented the overexposure of its most prominent members — the “exhaustion” of Virginia Woolf and “the draining” of the writer Lytton Strachey.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2023

But as Nino Strachey explains, Woolf was also influenced by the genderqueer society around Vita’s cousin Eddy.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

Consider Ham Spray, a farmhouse where Lytton Strachey made his home with Carrington and her eventual husband Ralph Partridge, an ex-army officer who worked for Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press.

From Washington Post • Dec. 1, 2022

Before his death, Mr. Lipez had completed two new novels, one featuring a gay detective in 1940s Philadelphia and another that will be the 17th installment in the Strachey series.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2022

Another was Oliver Strachey, a British cryptologist who ran a code-breaking unit in Canada that tracked spies, just as Elizebeth’s team did.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield