Strachey
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
In addition to the biographer and critic Lytton Strachey, the family includes another Old Bloomsbury stalwart, his brother James Strachey, who was a famed psychoanalyst.
From Washington Post
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 Literature
Strachey, a onetime police detective, was left to sort out the villains from the victims and restore a semblance of order to the lives of his clients.
From Washington Post
His inspirations include the British biographer Lytton Strachey, whom Bailey said regarded humanity as “ridiculous, but also touching.”
From Seattle Times
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