#OnThisDay in 1837: Queen Victoria ascends the British throne following death of her uncle, King William IV. Her reign of 63 years and seven months, which is longer than that of any other British monarch and the longest of any female monarch in history, is known as the Victorian era. It was a period of industrial, cultural, political, scientific, and military change within the United Kingdom and was marked by a great expansion of the British Empire.
“When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.”- Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd
Lytton Strachey 寫的傳記有漢譯：
Queen Victoria and her Age, an Analysis by Lytton Strachey
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Dec 23, 2004 - But when it came to his biography of Queen Victoria, first published in 1921, Strachey found himself drawn to his subject's "irresistible sincerity" ...Lytton Strachey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/; 1 March 1880 – 21 January ... His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black ...Virginia Woolf's friend, writer and critic Lytton Strachey, died in Ham, Wiltshire on this day in 1932 (aged 51). A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he is best known for establishing a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit.
"For I am more selves than Neville thinks. We are not simple as our friends would have us to meet their needs. Yet love is simple."
--from "The Waves" (1931)
--from "The Waves" (1931)
Virginia Woolf's husband Leonard Woolf said that in her experimental novel THE WAVES, "there is something of Lytton in Neville." Lytton is also said to have been the inspiration behind the character of St. John Hirst in her novel THE VOYAGE OUT.