I’m really interested in the Bloomsbury Group (that intellectual crowd from the 1910s-1920s that included E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf), and so of course I’d come across multiple references to Lytton Strachey and his book Eminent Victorians, which so many literary scholars say was foundational to changing how people wrote biographies, and yet which I almost never see quoted or discussed at any kind of length at this point. Since I’m thinking of teaching on the Bloomsbury Group sometime soon, I decided I should investigate the […]