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Unpublished Works of Lytton Strachey:


Early Papers
Editor: Todd Avery

The Pickering Masters


Hb: c.304pp: June 2011
978 1 84893 141 1: 234x156mm: £100/$180

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time Strachey’s previously unpublished essays,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 existing discussion society papers from
his time at Cambridge. Strachey was fascinated
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 captivating stories from a genre that Strachey
Lytton Strachey
often practiced but in which he never published.
Courtesy of Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington,
These unpublished writings offer vital and Indiana [H. W. Smith MSS, box 18, f. 26]
surprising new insights into Strachey’s life
and work. In particular, these papers reveal a
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 akes available for the first time significant
greater engagement with issues of morality than
unpublished material taken from the Strachey
previously considered and demonstrate the
Papers at the British Library
author’s spiritual and emotional awakening.
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 nables new insight into the thematic and
This edition will be invaluable to scholars of
philosophical concerns that influenced the
Modernism and the Bloomsbury Group. Strachey
revolution in modern biography
also inspired the development of the academic
field of Victorian Studies and researchers of •P
 ublished at the behest of the Strachey Trust and
Victorianism will also find much of interest in the Society of Authors
these writings.
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time in the Midnight Society, the Sunday Essay
Society and the Apostles
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introduction, detailed notes and bibliography
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Contents
Introduction 2. Dialogues

1. Cambridge Society Papers Julius Caesar and Lord Salisbury


Cleopatra and Mrs Humphry Ward
A Sermon Preached before the Midnight Society
Salter and Cleopatra: An Imaginary Conversation
Conversation and Conversations
Catullus and Lord Tennyson
Christ or Caliban?
Boccaccio and General Lee
The Colloquies of Senrab
Headmaster and Parent (fragment)
Is Death Desirable?
Gibbon, Johnson, and Adam Smith
Dignity, Romance or Vegetarianism?
Good God
The Historian of the Future
Should We Have Elected Conybeare? 3. Stories
Shall We Be Missionaries?
The Ethics of the Gospels The Decline and Fall of Little Red Riding Hood
Shall We Go the Whole Hog? The Story of A and B
When Is a Drama not a Drama? Tragedy
Was Diotima Right? Interesting Letter from Madame La Comtesse de — to Lady X
Do Two and Two Make Five? Letter. From an Inhabitant of another World
Ought Art to Be Always Beautiful?
Shakespeare and the Musical Glasses (fragment) Index
Art Has No Concern with Morals (fragment)

Related series

Lives of Victorian Literary Figures


Series Editor: Ralph Pite
This series reproduces in facsimile carefully selected extracts from rare biographies, memoirs, articles,
pamphlets, letters, private diaries and other ephemera. Spanning seven parts subjects include:
Louis Carroll, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Henry
Rider Haggard, Henry James, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Thackeray, Edith
Wharton and Oscar Wilde.

‘Each volume is eminently, engrossingly browsable, and offers a useful way to introduce
graduate students to the excitement and pitfalls of research among the primary sources
for Victorian literary biography.’ Australasian Victorian Studies Journal

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