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Lytton Strachey

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Giles Lytton Strachey (1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was an English writer and critic. [1]

100 relations: Abbotsholme School, Al sur de Granada, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Arthur Hallam, Balliol College, Oxford, BDSM, Belsize Park, Berkshire Downs, Bertrand Russell, Bloomsbury Group, British Academy, British Empire, Cambridge Apostles, Carrington (film), Charles George Gordon, Christ Church, Oxford, Clapham Common, Clive Bell, Conscientious objector, Constance Garnett, Dartmoor, Dora Carrington, Dorothy Bussy, E. M. Forster, East Ilsley, Edinburgh Review, Eminent Victorians, Emma Thompson, England, Florence Nightingale, Frederick Denison Maurice, Freshman, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G. E. Moore, George Mallory, Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson, Governor-General of India, H. A. L. Fisher, Ham, Wiltshire, Hampstead, Harvill Secker, Henry Edward Manning, Henry Lamb, James Fleet, James Strachey, James Tait Black Memorial Prize, Jane Maria Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, John Sterling (author), John William Mackail, ..., Jonathan Pryce, Kensington Gardens, Lady Ottoline Morrell, Lancaster Gate, Leonard Woolf, Lincoln Allison, Lincoln College, Oxford, Lockeridge, London, Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography, Marlborough, Wiltshire, Maurice (novel), Michael Holroyd, New Statesman, North Leamington School, Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, Palpitations, Pangbourne, Parkstone, Paul Levy (journalist), Psychology, Ralph Partridge, Richard Strachey, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Rocester, Roger Senhouse, Saltsjöbaden, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Sigmund Freud, Steven Waddington, Stockholm, The Apes of God, The Hudson Review, The Spectator, The Times Literary Supplement, The Voyage Out, The Waves, Thoby Stephen, Thomas Arnold, Tidmarsh, Trinity College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool, University of Oxford, Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf, Walter Raleigh (professor), Warren Hastings, Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom, Wyndham Lewis. Expand index (50 more) »

Abbotsholme School

Abbotsholme School is a coeducational independent boarding and day school near the town of Rocester in Staffordshire, England.

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Al sur de Granada

Al sur de Granada (English title: South from Granada) is a 2003 film written and directed by Fernando Colomo, based on the book by Gerald Brenan.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Arthur Hallam

Arthur Henry Hallam (1 February 1811 – 15 September 1833) was an English poet, best known as the subject of a major work, "In Memoriam" by his close friend and fellow poet, Alfred Tennyson.

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Balliol College, Oxford

Balliol College, founded in 1263,: Graduate Studies Prospectus - Last updated 17 Sep 08 is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England.

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BDSM

BDSM is a variety of often erotic practices or roleplaying involving bondage, discipline, dominance and submission, sadomasochism, and other related interpersonal dynamics.

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Belsize Park

Belsize Park is an area of the London Borough of Camden (the inner north-west of London), England.

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Berkshire Downs

The Berkshire Downs are a range of chalk downland hills in southern England, part of the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

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Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, writer, social critic, political activist, and Nobel laureate.

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Bloomsbury Group

The Bloomsbury Group—or Bloomsbury Set—was a group of associated English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists, the best known members of which included Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster and Lytton Strachey.

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British Academy

The British Academy is the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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Cambridge Apostles

The Cambridge Apostles is an intellectual society at the University of Cambridge founded in 1820 by George Tomlinson, a Cambridge student who went on to become the first Bishop of Gibraltar.

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Carrington (film)

Carrington is a 1995 British biographical film written and directed by Christopher Hampton about the life of the English painter Dora Carrington (1893–1932), who was known simply as "Carrington".

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Charles George Gordon

Major-General Charles George Gordon CB (28 January 1833 – 26 January 1885), also known as Chinese Gordon, Gordon Pasha, and Gordon of Khartoum, was a British Army officer and administrator.

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Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church (Ædes Christi, the temple or house, ædēs, of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England.

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Clapham Common

Clapham Common is a large triangular urban park in Clapham, south London.

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Clive Bell

Arthur Clive Heward Bell (16 September 1881 – 18 September 1964) was an English art critic, associated with formalism and the Bloomsbury Group.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of thought, conscience, or religion.

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Constance Garnett

Constance Clara Garnett (née Black; 19 December 1861 – 17 December 1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature.

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Dartmoor

Dartmoor is a moor in southern Devon, England.

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Dora Carrington

Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton Strachey.

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Dorothy Bussy

Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) (24 July 1865 – 1 May 1960) was an English novelist and translator, close to the Bloomsbury Group.

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E. M. Forster

Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970) was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.

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East Ilsley

East Ilsley is a village and civil parish in the Berkshire or Lambourn Downs northern part of West Berkshire, north of Newbury centred immediately east of the A34 road dual carriageway which passes through the length of the village from north to south.

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Edinburgh Review

The Edinburgh Review has been the title of four distinct intellectual and cultural magazines.

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Eminent Victorians

Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey (one of the older members of the Bloomsbury Group), first published in 1918 and consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson, DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale, (12 May 1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing.

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Frederick Denison Maurice

John Frederick Denison Maurice (29 August 1805 – 1 April 1872), often known as F. D. Maurice, was an English Anglican theologian, a prolific author, and one of the founders of Christian socialism.

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Freshman

A freshman, first year, or frosh, is a person in the first year at an educational institution, usually a secondary or post-secondary school.

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Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Mikhailovich DostoevskyHis name has been variously transcribed into English, his first name sometimes being rendered as Theodore or Fedor.

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G. E. Moore

George Edward Moore (4 November 1873 – 24 October 1958), usually cited as G. E. Moore, was an English philosopher.

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George Mallory

George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to Mount Everest, in the early 1920s.

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Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson

Goldsworthy Lowes Dickinson (6 August 1862 – 3 August 1932), known as Goldie, was a British political scientist and philosopher.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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H. A. L. Fisher

Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher H.A.L. Fisher: A History of Europe, Volume II: From the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century to 1935, Glasgow: Fontana/Collins, 1984, p. i. (21 March 1865 – 18 April 1940) was an English historian, educator, and Liberal politician.

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Ham, Wiltshire

Ham is a small village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England.

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Hampstead

Hampstead, commonly known as Hampstead Village, is an area of London, England, northwest of Charing Cross.

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Harvill Secker

Harvill Secker is a British publishing company formed in 2005 from the merger of Secker & Warburg and the Harvill Press.

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Henry Edward Manning

Henry Edward Manning (15 July 1808 – 14 January 1892) was an English Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, and the second Archbishop of Westminster from 1865 until his death in 1892.

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Henry Lamb

Henry Taylor Lamb (21 June 1883 – 8 October 1960) was an Australian-born British painter.

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James Fleet

James Edward Fleet (born 11 March 1952) is a British actor.

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James Strachey

James Beaumont Strachey (26 September 1887, London25 April 1967, High Wycombe) was a British psychoanalyst, and, with his wife Alix, a translator of Sigmund Freud into English.

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James Tait Black Memorial Prize

The James Tait Black Memorial Prizes are literary prizes awarded for literature written in the English language.

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Jane Maria Strachey

Lady Jane Maria Strachey (13 March 1840 – 14 December 1928) was an English suffragist and writer.

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John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes (5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was a British economist whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments.

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John Sterling (author)

John Sterling (20 July 1806 – 18 September 1844) was a Scottish author.

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John William Mackail

John William Mackail (26 August 1859 – 13 December 1945) was a Scottish man of letters and socialist, now best remembered as a Virgil scholar.

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Jonathan Pryce

Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born John Price; 1 June 1947) is a Welsh actor and singer.

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Kensington Gardens

Kensington Gardens, once the private gardens of Kensington Palace, are among the Royal Parks of London.

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Lady Ottoline Morrell

Lady Ottoline Violet Anne Morrell (16 June 1873 – 21 April 1938) was an English aristocrat and society hostess.

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Lancaster Gate

Lancaster Gate is a mid-19th century development in the Bayswater district of central London, immediately to the north of Kensington Gardens.

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Leonard Woolf

Leonard Sidney Woolf (25 November 1880 – 14 August 1969) was a British political theorist, author, publisher and civil servant, and husband of author Virginia Woolf.

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Lincoln Allison

Lincoln Allison (born in 1946 in Hartlepool) is an English academic and essayist.

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Lincoln College, Oxford

Lincoln College (formally, The College of the Blessed Mary and All Saints, Lincoln) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford, situated on Turl Street in central Oxford.

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Lockeridge

Lockeridge (pop. approximately 290) is a village in Wiltshire, England.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography

Lytton Strachey: A Critical Biography is a book-length biography of Lytton Strachey by Michael Holroyd, the author's magnum opus.

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Marlborough, Wiltshire

Marlborough is a market town and civil parish in the English county of Wiltshire on the Old Bath Road, the old main road from London to Bath.

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Maurice (novel)

Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster.

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Michael Holroyd

Sir Michael de Courcy Fraser Holroyd CBE FRHistS FRSL (born 27 August 1935) is an English biographer.

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New Statesman

The New Statesman is a British political and cultural magazine published in London.

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North Leamington School

North Leamington School (NLS) is a mixed comprehensive school for students aged 11 to 18 years located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.

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Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

The Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (OALD) was the first advanced learner's dictionary of English.

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Palpitations

Palpitations are the perceived abnormality of the heartbeat characterized by awareness of cardiac muscle contractions in the chest: hard, fast and/or irregular beats.

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Pangbourne

Pangbourne is a large village and civil parish on the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire.

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Parkstone

Parkstone is an area of Poole, Dorset.

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Paul Levy (journalist)

Paul Levy (born 26 February 1941 in Lexington, Kentucky) is a US/British author and journalist.

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Psychology

Psychology is the science of behavior and mind, including conscious and unconscious phenomena, as well as feeling and thought.

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Ralph Partridge

Reginald Sherring Partridge (1894 – 30 November 1960), generally known as Ralph Partridge, a member of the Bloomsbury Group, worked for Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf, married first Dora Carrington and then Frances Marshall, and was the unrequited love of Lytton Strachey.

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Richard Strachey

Lieutenant General Sir Richard Strachey (24 July 1817 – 12 February 1908) was a British soldier and Indian administrator, the third son of Edward Strachey and grandson of Sir Henry Strachey, 1st Baronet.

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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891) was an English statesman and poet (under the pen name Owen Meredith).

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Rocester

Rocester is a village and civil parish in the East Staffordshire district of Staffordshire, England.

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Roger Senhouse

Roger Henry Pocklington Senhouse (1899 – 1970) was an English publisher and translator, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers, intellectuals, and artists.

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Saltsjöbaden

Saltsjöbaden is a locality in Nacka Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 9,491 inhabitants in 2010.

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Saxon Sydney-Turner

Saxon Arnold Sydney-TurnerMiddle name sometimes spelt, seemingly deliberately, as Arnoll (1880-1962) was a member of the Bloomsbury Group who worked as a British civil servant throughout his life.

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Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

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Steven Waddington

Steven Waddington (born 30 December 1967) is an English film and television actor.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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The Apes of God

The Apes of God is a 1930 novel by the British artist and writer Wyndham Lewis.

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The Hudson Review

The Hudson Review is a quarterly journal of literature and the arts.

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The Spectator

The Spectator is a weekly British magazine on politics, culture, and current affairs.

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The Times Literary Supplement

The Times Literary Supplement (or TLS, on the front page from 1969) is a weekly literary review published in London by News UK, a subsidiary of News Corp.

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The Voyage Out

The Voyage Out is the first novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1915 by Duckworth; and published in the US in 1920 by Doran.

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The Waves

The Waves is a 1931 novel by Virginia Woolf.

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Thoby Stephen

Julian Thoby Stephen (9 September 1880 – 20 November 1906), known as the Goth, was the brother of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf, both prominent members of the Bloomsbury Group, and of Adrian Stephen.

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Thomas Arnold

Thomas Arnold (13 June 1795 – 12 June 1842) was an English educator and historian.

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Tidmarsh

Tidmarsh is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire England.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge (informally Cambridge University)The corporate title of the university is The Chancellor, Masters, and Scholars of the University of Cambridge.

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University of Liverpool

The University of Liverpool is a public university based in the city of Liverpool, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford (formally The Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the University of Oxford) is a collegiate research university located in Oxford, England.

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Vanessa Bell

Vanessa Bell (née Stephen; 30 May 1879 – 7 April 1961) was an English painter and interior designer, a member of the Bloomsbury Group and the sister of Virginia Woolf.

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Virginia Woolf

Adeline Virginia Woolf (née Stephen; 25 January 188228 March 1941) was an English writer, who is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.

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Walter Raleigh (professor)

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh (5 September 1861 – 13 May 1922) was an English scholar, poet, and author.

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Warren Hastings

Warren Hastings (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1773 to 1785.

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Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom

Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom was a movement to fight for women's right to vote.

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Wyndham Lewis

Percy Wyndham Lewis (18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957) was an English writer, painter and critic (he dropped the name "Percy", which he disliked).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lytton_Strachey

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