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...slyly barbed study that might pass for one of Lytton Strachey's lesser portraits of eminent Victorians. British Author Arthur Calder-Marshall has done the best biography yet of the self-made sage of sex. It is not Author Calder-Marshall's purpose to debunk, but nearness lends disenchantment with a man like Ellis. The heroic side is that, leading from utter weakness, Ellis helped win such a signal victory for the study of sexual deviations as to rob posterity of its need...
Still she wrote, and lavishly entertained unprejudiced friends from the great world, including past and future Viceroys of India, Lords Lytton (Novelist Bulwer-Lytton's son) and Curzon. Troubles piled up. When she offended the Italians with a bitterly realistic story, her pony cart was shot at. She was furious: the noise might have made her ponies nervous. The Italians imposed a muzzling order against all dogs; she spent a night with her beloved pooches in a hackney carriage rather than see their freedom being curtailed...
Lady Emily (Emy to her family) was a bright-eyed matron married to a distinguished architect (designer of New Delhi, London's Cenotaph and Liverpool Cathedral). She belonged to a famed English family: grandfather was Statesman-Novelist Bulwer-Lytton (Harold, Last of the Saxon Kings, Rienzi, The Last Days of Pompeii), and her father, first Earl of Lytton, was Viceroy of India (1876-80). There came a day in 1910 when Emy, then 36, no longer knew what to do with herself. Every male reader with an underemployed female relative will feel his heart sink at the news that...
...Conrad, who taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard (Lord Keynes), Virginia (Woolf), Morgan (E. M. Forster), Lytton (Strachey) and Rupert (Brooke...
...Hard Seat. One of the book's more remarkable episodes concerns Author Lytton Strachey, like Garnett a pacifist. Summoned before a tribunal that was examining conscientious objectors for good faith, Strachey appeared, surrounded by his family and padded against the reality of hard benches with a private, pale blue air cushion. Asked the tribunal's spokesman: "What would you do, Mr. Strachey, if you saw an Uhlan attempting to rape your sister?" Whereupon, as Garnett tells it, "Lytton looked at his sisters in turn, as though trying to visualize the scene, and gravely replied in his high voice...