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- Birth nameGiles Lytton Strachey
- Lytton Strachey was born on March 1, 1880 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Gloriana (1984), Gloriana (2013) and Gloriana (2000). He died on January 21, 1932 in Hungerford, Berkshire, England, UK.
- English biographer, essayist, journalist, playwright, and critic, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, which included Leonard Woolf, Clive Bell, Thoby Stephen (brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf), Desmond MacCarthy, and John Maynard Keynes. His biography of Queen Elizabeth I, "Elizabeth and Essex," was the basis of Britten's opera "Gloriana".
- Uncle of Julia Strachey.
- A homosexual, his lovers included the painter Duncan Grant, artist Henry Lamb, the painter Dora Carrington and her lover (and later husband), Ralph Partridge, and the publisher Roger Senhouse.
- His last name is pronounced STRAY-chee.
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