Lytton Strachey by Holroyd, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Contents List of Illustrations Double Preface Part I

I Lancaster Gate

1. Papa and Mama 2. Elephantiasis and Uncles 3. Marie Souvestre 4. Spellbound

II ‘Funny Little Creature’

1. Sea Air 2. ‘Glad Day, Love and Duty’ 3. ‘Scraggs’

III Liverpool

1. Preparations 2. The Melancholy of Anatomy 3. Diaries and Decisions

IV Fratribus

1. Once Upon a Midnight 2. Palpitations, French and English 3. Characters 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 vieand a Glimpse of Heaven

Part II

VI Post-Graduate

1. Bubbles, Oysters and Potatoes 2. The Limbo of Unintimacy 3. Duncan Grant and his World 4. Men in Love 5. Influence funeste

VII Intentions

1. The Travails of a Journeyman 2. The Spectatorial Experience 3. A Pocket Handkerchief on Mont Blanc 4. A Bad End

VIII The Wrong Turning

1. A Proposal of Marriage 2. On Gray and Purple Seas 3. Swedish Experiment, French Solution

Part III

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 4. Grand Tour 5. Peregrinations and Angoisses

XI The Lacket

1. Alone with a Widow 2. Scenes from Post-Edwarthan England 3. Two Types of Patriotism 4. Undertones of War

XII War and Peace

1. Garsington 2. Conscription 3. The Virgin and the Gipsy 4. Unregarded Hours 5. Fragile Loves and Secondary Hearts

XIII Tidmarsh

1. Drama and Uncertainty 2. Summer Manoeuvres 3. The Mill House 4. ‘Tout est Possible’

Part IV

XIV A Life Apart

1. Success, Money, Other People 2. The Beau Monde 3. Queen Victoriaand 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 Edwarthan

1. The Great Panjandrum 2. Kissing and Fishing 3. Views and Reviews 4. Valentine’s Day 5. Diplothatic Asides 6. An Ibsen Ending

XVI Ham Spray House

1. Paper-games and Pussy-cats 2. Attachment 3. A Moderate Success 4. Some More Plot and Fresh Stirrings 5. Fiddling with Elizabeth 6. Waiting for Roger 7. Together 8. End of an Era

XVII Another World

1. Elizabeth, C’est Moi! 2. Two to Come and One to Go 3. Ambitions 4. A Summer Interlude 5. Things that Pass and Things in General 6. Farewell to France 7. The Final Silence

Epilogue Bibliographical Appendix: Thirty Years On Acknowledgements Notes Index Photo Section Praise Copyright Page