Critic and biographer. Born Giles Lytton Strachey. At Cambridge he joined The Apostles. Was a prominent conscientious objector in WW1.
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Lytton Strachey
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Bloomsbury Group - Gordon Square
Here and in neighbouring houses during the first half of the 20th century the...
Lytton Strachey
Greater London Council Lytton Strachey, 1880 - 1932, critic and biographer, ...
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