Lytton Strachey By Himself

While working on his two-volume biography of Lytton Strachey, Michael Holroyd had access to the Strachey archives. From the same source he collected all Strachey''s diaries and memoirs, which together in this volume form an intermittent but not disconnected autobiography.

From childhood diaries to the introspective and often anguished records of late adolescence emerges an intimate self-portrait, ...