| Description |
xvii, 488 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
An Anglo-Indian family -- An imperial marriage -- Strachey childhoods -- School days -- University life -- Modern marriages -- Single life -- Sibling ties -- Work, income, and changing career patterns -- Gender transformations and the question of sexuality -- A feminist family -- Continuity and change -- A literary family -- Old age and death |
| Summary |
"The Stracheys were an exceptionally intelligent and unusual family, prominent in imperial administration, science, and feminism in the nineteenth century, and in the suffrage movement, women's education, and the bringing of new approaches to sexuality in the twentieth century. The Strachey Family examines the lives of Lytton Strachey, a well-known member of the Bloomsbury set, his nine siblings, and his parents." |
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"Richard Strachey worked in India, marrying Jane, the daughter of the Indian Chief Justice, in 1859. A successful imperial couple, they were progressive, following the ideas of Auguste Comte and J. S. Mill, and the teachings of science. Their ten children were born over a period of 27 years and reflect the development and changes in a Victorian society moving to modernity. The richness of their letters provides a picture of a large, complex, and diverse family where attitudes to the family name, gender tensions, differing views on sexuality, ideas on modernity, and varying degrees of support for feminism all played a part."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography, pages 463-474 |
| Subject |
Strachey family.
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Strachey, Lytton, 1880-1932 -- Family.
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British -- India -- Biography.
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Imperialism.
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Feminism -- Great Britain.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056608
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Great Britain -- Intellectual life.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056850
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2004024294 |
| ISBN |
0199250340 acid-free paper |
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0199250340 alkaline paper |
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