ORIGINS—­THE MIDDLE AGES
When the French nation gradually came into existence
among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul,
a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
Thi...
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Giles Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) was an English biographer and critic known for his satire of the Victorian Era.Lytton Strachey was born in London on March 1, 1880. He was the eleventh of thirteen ch...
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Lytton Strachey, critic and biographer, created a new kind of biography. His studies of Queen Elizabeth and Queen Victoria, powerful and dramatic, though relatively conventional, are excellent biograp...
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Landmarks in French Literature
Giles Lytton Strachey
(Giles) Lytton Strachey