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Strachey

American  
[strey-chee] / ˈstreɪ tʃi /

noun

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


Strachey British  
/ ˈstreɪtʃɪ /

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

The British observer William Strachey, for example, reported in 1612: “The doggs of the Country are like their woulves, and cannot barke but howle.”

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 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

Many of Mr. Lipez’s Strachey novels are set in Albany, N.Y., or in other fading locales in the Northeast.

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

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