Unpublished Works of Lytton Strachey

A core member of the Bloomsbury Group, Lytton Strachey (1880-1932) is recognized for his radical influence on the new school of psychological biography. This volume collects for the first time Strachey's previously unpublished essays, dialogues and stories. The first section includes all fifteen of Strachey's Discussion Society papers from his time at Cambridge. Strachey was obsessed with conversation as a means to exploring ideas - the dialogues presented in the second section are satirical and exist in what appears to be a finished form. The third and final section gathers five fascinating stories from a genre that Strachey often practiced but in which he never published.Strachey's unpublished writing offers vital and surprising new insights into his life and work. In particular, the stories reveal a greater engagement with religion than previously considered. His exploration of Modernist aesthetical, ethical and social issues means that this edition will be invaluable to those studying both the Modernist movement and the Bloomsbury Group. Strachey also inspired the development of the academic field of Victorian studies and thus researchers of Victorianism will also find much of interest in these writings.