Lytton Strachey: The New Biography

CONTENTS

List of Illustrations

Double Preface

I LANCASTER GATE

1. Papa and Mama

2. Elephantiasis and Uncles

3. Marie Souvestre

II ‘FUNNY LITTLE CREATURE’

2. ‘Glad Day, Love and Duty’

3. ‘Scraggs’

1. Preparations

2. The Melancholy of Anatomy

3. Diaries and Decisions

1. Once Upon a Midnight

2. Palpitations, French and English

4. Blank, Blank, Blank

V BEETLES AND WATER-SPIDERS

1. Conversazione

2. Father Figures

3. A Rose-Water Revolution

4. The Good Life

5. Hastings’s Creature

6. A New Friend and Rival

7. Sale vie and a Glimpse of Heaven

VI POST-GRADUATE

1. Bubbles, Oysters and Potatoes

2. The Limbo of Unintimacy

3. Duncan Grant and his World

5. Influence funeste

1. The Travails of a Journeyman

2. The Spectatorial Experience

3. A Pocket Handkerchief on Mont Blanc

VIII THE WRONG TURNING

1. A Proposal of Marriage

2. On Gray and Purple Seas

3. Swedish Experiment, French Solution

IX THE CHANGING PAST

1. ‘Chère Marquise’ and ‘Cher Serpent’

2. Mumps and a Beard

3. The Strange Case of Rupert Brooke

4. A Spiritual Revolution

X TOWN VERSUS THE COUNTRY

1. The Angel, The Devil and A Son of Heaven

2. The Chestnuts

3. Oscillations

5. Peregrinations and Angoisses

1. Alone with a Widow

2. Scenes from Post-Edwardian England

3. Two Types of Patriotism

4. Undertones of War

XII WAR AND PEACE

2. Conscription

3. The Virgin and the Gipsy

4. Unregarded Hours

5. Fragile Loves and Secondary Hearts

1. Drama and Uncertainty

2. Summer Manoeuvres

3. The Mill House

4. ‘Tout est Possible’

XIV A LIFE APART

1. Success, Money, Other People

2. The Beau Monde

3. Queen Victoria and Other Essays

4. Memoir of an Infantry Officer

5. High Life, Low Life and Literary Life

6. The Question of Things Happening

7. South from Pangbourne

8. The End of Queen Victoria

9. Moons and Honeymoons

XV EMINENT EDWARDIAN

1. The Great Panjandrum

2. Kissing and Fishing

3. Views and Reviews

4. Valentine’s Day

5. Diplomatic Asides

6. An Ibsen Ending

XVI HAM SPRAY HOUSE

1. Paper-games and Pussy-cats

3. A Moderate Success

4. Some More Plot and Fresh Stirrings

5. Fiddling with Elizabeth

6. Waiting for Roger

8. End of an Era

XVII ANOTHER WORLD

1. Elizabeth, C’est Moi!

2. Two to Come and One to Go

4. A Summer Interlude

5. Things that Pass and Things in General

6. Farewell to France

7. The Final Silence

Bibliographical Appendix: Thirty Years On

Acknowledgements

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